Quotes About Evolution

People say times have changed. That just means they've got more discreet.

The passionate controversies of one era are viewed as sterile preoccupations by another, for knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find.

1. Knowledge alters what we seek as well as what we find."--

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

When you feel that you are superior to someone else, you lack compassion. Compassion is a word Buddhists use to express the realization that even though we may differ greatly in evolution, appearance, talents, or intelligence from other beings in the universe, we are all equally valuable in the eyes of eternity. This is wisdom." - Surfing the Himalayas 202

For every state, from the smallest to the largest, the principle of enlargement is the fundamental law of life.

In the past the man has been first. In the future the System must be first.

Lucky individuals in each generation find technology appropriate to their needs.

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

I guess confidence is the only thing that I take from project to project, but I'm always open to learning everybody's style - the director, the actor I'm working with.

Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place

The first step binds one to the second.

Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse et tout se remplace (Everything passes, everything weary, everything breaks and everything replaced).

Nothing will ever be the same again.

The history of the human race is a continual struggle from darkness into light. It is, therefore, to no purpose to discuss the use of knowledge; man wants to know, and when he ceases to do so, is no longer a man.

Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss.

Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.

Poetry should forever be becoming and never perfected.

In today already walks tomorrow.

This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.'

Notons qu'un soi-disant "sociobiologiste"-- ce mot est tout un programme -- a poussé l'ingéniosité jusqu'à remplacer la matière par des "gênes" dont l'égoïsme aveugle, combiné avec un instinct de fourmis ou d'abeilles, aurait fini par constituer non seulement les corps mais aussi la conscience et en fin de compte l'intelligence humaine, miraculeusement capable de disserter sur les gênes qui se sont amusés à la produire.