Quotes About Evolution

when we know better, we do better.

Maya Angelou talk about how when we know better, we do better.

Evolutionary theory suggests that we should embrace all of our emotions, as each has an important role to play under the right circumstances.

In the past, jobs were about muscles, now they're about brains, but in the future they'll be about the heart.1 —MINOUCHE SHAFIK, director, London School of Economics

Evolution and incremental change is important and we need it, but we're desperate for real revolution and that requires a different type of courage and creativity.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it. —Pearl Bailey

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Every change in the quality of a person's life must grow out of a change in his or her vision of reality.

Each moment of our existence, we are either growing into more or retreating into less.

The second journey begins when we know we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the morning program.

The question is not whether but how Buddhism will change as it enters further into Western societies.

there are between life partners sliding layers of history, tectonic plates of it shifting over the decades together.

Al wat je ooit zag of hoorde, al wat je dacht te weten, is niet meer dat, maar anders.

The dismaying truth is that birtherism is part of a larger pattern of rejection of reality that has taken hold of intimidating segments of one of the two political parties that alternate in power in our governing institutions. It is akin to the view that global warming is a hoax, or that the budget can be balanced through spending cuts alone, or that contraception causes abortion, or that evolution is just another theory, on a par with the theory that the earth is six thousand years old.

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

For history is like life. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

We're living as if we were in mourning for a lost paradise, he thought. As if we longed for the car thieves and safecrackers of the old days, who doffed their caps and behaved like gentlemen when we came to take them in. But those days have irretrievably vanished, and it's questionable whether they were ever as idyllic as we remember them.

History can never give us exact knowledge of what will happen in the future: rather, it shows us that our ability to prepare ourselves for change is limited.

New ideas are always resisted.

There's always an end. But the end is always the beginning of something else. The periods we write into our lives are always provisional, in one way or another.

Our ancestors survive somewhere in our faces, she thought. If you look like your mother as a child, you end up as your father when you age. When you no longer recognise your face, it's because an unknown ancestor has taken up residence for a while.

Wallander smiled to hear how he too used to speak, before his move to Ystad had changed his dialect.

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