Quotes About Evolution

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

Pour un être conscient, exister consiste à changer, changer à se mûrir, se mûrir à se créer indéfiniment soi-même.

the human mind is so constructed that it cannot begin to understand the new until it has done everything in its power to relate it to the old.

Evolution of mind was altogether another matter and belonged to another science, but whether one traced descent from the shark or the wolf was immaterial even in morals. This matter had been discussed for ages without scientific result. La Fontaine and other fabulists maintained that the wolf, even in morals, stood higher than man; and in view of the late civil war, Adams had doubts of his own on the facts of moral evolution:

Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one--except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative, practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

The world grew cheap, as worlds must.

The jugleor became a jongleur and degenerated into the street-juggler; the minstrel, or menestrier, became very early a word of abuse, equivalent to blackguard; and from the beginning the profession seems to have been socially decried, like that of a music-hall singer or dancer in later times; but in the eleventh century, or perhaps earlier still, the jongleur seems to have been a poet, and to have composed the songs he sang.

All that had gone before was useless, and some of it was worse.

It is never too late to give up your prejudices

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

He is blessed who is assured that the animal is dying out in him every day by day, and the divine being established.

It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man.

Whatever my own practice may be, I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

A journal is a record of experiences and growth, not a preserve of things well done or said.

One generation abandons the enterprises of another like stranded vessels.

If there is not a new man, how can the new clothes be made to fit? If you have any enterprise before you, try it in your old clothes.

The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

Farewell, my friends, my path inclines to this side the mountain, yours to that. We are no longer the representatives of our former selves.

Things do not change; people change.