Quotes About Evolution

A man is what he is, not what he used to be. —Yiddish proverb

Britches," John Cabot murmured. To Vanderbilt, he said in a low voice, "It's fascinating—the connections of their speech with Elizabethan England, Scotland, and Ireland, as well as Africa, significantly. Their speech, the construction of their homes, their methods of farming, their musical instruments, all of it hardly evolved from earlier eras across oceans. Like a time capsule here in the hollows of the Blue Ridge.

You should have changed if you wanted to remain yourself but you were afraid to change.

Katherine feels that she must have learned something about marriage from being married before that is now working to her benefit. However, she doesn't know quite what it is, or how, actually, it works.

Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's intellectual and moral evolution. Which is how the human animal is meant to evolve, isn't it?

I never change, I simply become more myself.

I had forgotten that time wasn't fixed like concrete but in fact was fluid as sand, or water. I had forgotten that even misery can end.

Perhaps it takes a hybrid to help create a body of writing where once there was only oral tradition.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily diguised as Chaos.

Sometimes a person has to leave home to become who they need to be.

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.

I am all that I am not, and I am not what I shall become—who knows?

I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: … a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

Recuerden que los microbios son, junto con la desordenada codicia de los vienes ajenos, el gran motor de la Historia.

Quizás en eso consiste crecer: en darte cuenta de lo gilipollas que eras.

Este hombre no ha sido siempre este hombre. Este hombre era otro hombre antes.

Where does the past go when it changes?

Cuando comienzan a hacerse fiestas de cumpleaños, es que la cosa va para

y que esas palabras sencillas ya no eran las que habían sido alguna vez: habían perdido valor, como las monedas que ya no circulan.

Tal vez fue aquella la primera vez que pasó por mi cabeza, si bien de forma intuitiva y rudimentaria, la misma idea que se repetiría después, encarnada en palabras distintas o a veces sin necesidad de palabras: este hombre no ha sido siempre este hombre. Este hombre era otro hombre antes

No se fue sin luchar, simplemente luchó de una forma distinta.

la costumbre, esa lenta e implacable apisonadora que convierte lo inadecuado en lo habitual.

En qué momento dejamos de ser los cazadores para convertirnos en presas?

ciencia está aún empezando a poner el pie en el umbral de la mente humana