Quotes About Evolution

But sometimes it's hard to see a person from our past with new eyes. Like they've become a statue to their previously perceived old wonderfulness, and that's all we see – not the real person they are.

Learning who you are and changing aren't always the same thing, you know. Sometimes we think we've changed, but all we've done is grow into the person we were always meant to be.

Min tunga hade alltid varit ett smidigt och pålitligt verktyg, men nu vägrade den att göra tjänst mer. Alldeles som jag nyss hade hade lyssnat för första gången i mitt liv, visste jag, att om jag nu vill tala, måste det vara på ett nytt sätt, som jag ännu inte var mogen för. De lager av mig själv, som nu skulle komma till tals, hade väl aldrig förr format några ord (s. 138).

spädbarnet och stenåldersvilden lever kanske inte bara kvar i somliga, tänkte jag, utan i oss alla, fast mer eller mindre, det är en väsentlig skillnad (s. 60).

The strides of humanity are slow, they can only be counted in centuries.

But as we ascend to animals of high types, having faculties more efficient and more numerous, we begin to find that time and strength are not wholly absorbed in providing for immediate needs.

I love to watch times change!

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence.

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.

Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly

The habit of looking at the last ten thousand years as well as at the array of early societies as a mere prelude to the true history of our civilization which started approximately with the publication of the Wealth of Nations in 1776, is, to say the least, out of date.

No book can ever be finished. While working on it we learn just enough to find it immature the moment we turn away from it

All life is problem solving

The method of learning by trial and error—of learning from our mistakes—seems to be fundamentally the same whether it is practised by lower or by higher animals, by chimpanzees or by men of science.

if God had wanted to put everything into the world from the beginning, He would have created a universe without change, without organisms and evolution, and without man and man's experience of change. But He seems to have thought that a live universe with events unexpected even by Himself would be more interesting than a dead one.

Natural selection has destroyed the proof for the miraculous specific intervention of the Creator. But it has left us with the marvel of the creativeness of the universe, of life, and of the human mind.

I conjecture that the origin of life and the origin of problems coincide.

Every social organisation which is rooted in life still lasts a long time, even after the conditions from which it drew its strength have changed in a manner unfavourable to it.

Sosyal çevremizi, ?iddetten uzak ve bar??ç?l bir biçimde yap?land?rma arzusu, bir dü? de?ildir. Bu, insanl?k için ihtimal dahilinde olan ve biyolojik bak?? aç?s?ndan bak?ld???nda, ku?kusuz gerekli bir hedeftir.