Quotes About Evolution

she realized it was not the rereading that led to fresh insights. It was the rereader—because when a person is changing inside, there are inevitably new things to see

she was like some curious, primitive thing conceived in a turbulent age of transition.

one day I am gonna grow wings a chemical reaction hysterical but useless hysterical and a let down

Evening succeeds evening.

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That's what life is about, isn't it? We're all works in progress, aren't we, just trying to become a little better every day?

And there went the neighborhood.

How far we've come, Jeff," Brian whispered to the cold, wet streets. "How far the geeky boys have come.

You could become anyone, including your real self.

It involves considerable change, and change is risky. But as India develops, not changing is even riskier. We have to keep what is good about our system, of which there is a tremendous amount, even while acting differently where warranted.

Past experience and relationships are of little value in driving radical innovation: indeed, because the natural human tendency is to do more of the same and to serve existing clients and needs well, past relationships can be positively detrimental.

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future.

Practicality requires that we stop somewhere in the process, but nothing actually says we can't keep on writing and revising. In fact, most writers continue to develop ideas and themes from one book to the next in what is essentially a lifelong evolution and revision.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.

There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.

Life is a progress, and not a station.

We change, whether we like it or not

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

A mollusk is a cheap edition [of man] with a suppression of the costlier illustrations, designed for dingy circulation, for shelving in an oyster-bank or among the seaweed.

All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution.

what is now in the past was once in the future'. There