Quotes About Evolution

The mysterious awful changes which alter the human face from youth to age may gently dally and delay, then act decisively all at once.

I must have been changing though, and becoming, though I didn't know it, what I am now. I can't have become all this, and there's really a lot of it, in a few days, can I?

It wis like auld times, but in a sense that only served tae remind us ay how much things hud changed.

Life is a dynamic rather than a static process, and when we don't change it kills us. It's not running away, it's moving on.

Sex generally makes them intae real relationships, or ends them. Ye go backwards or forwards after shagging, but maintaining the status quo is difficult.

we're not human any more. We've slipped out of our skins like lizards, shedding not just our pasts, but our futures.

but ah'm hugging Janey and thinking about how much a life can change in the time it takes tae fix up.

We don't really communicate […]. We talk all right, talk in that strange language we've evolved for the purposes of avoiding communication. That non-language we've created. Perhaps it's a sign that civilisation is regressing. Something is anyway.

É, o mundo moderno tem um tipo de seleção natural e não tem jeito de eu me encaixar nessa história não. Os bichano tipo eu acabam tudo extinto.

You're nothing but a work-in-progress until that day you fall out of this world into the land ay dead men's trousers.

A work of art meant growth from the particular to the universal. To a work of art, time brought timelessness.

Jer ako dodate samo malo na malo, i to ?esto ?inite, uskoro ?e malo postati veliko.

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Education isn't something you can finish.

Don't you see? It's Galaxy-wide. It's a worship of the past. It's a deterioration - a stagnation!

The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans.

Changelessness is decay. A paradox. There is no decay without a change for the worse. Changelessness is a change for the worse

It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be ...

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

you can't just move backward. You can't push the chicken back into the egg, wine back into the grape, the boy back into the womb. If you want the baby to let go of your watch, you don't just try to explain that he ought to do it—you offer him something he would rather have.

Lamentarsi è una caratteristica innata della specie umana. Nel Secolo del Carbone la gente imprecava contro la macchina a vapore; in una commedia di Shakespeare un personaggio lamenta l'invenzione della polvere da sparo. Mille anni dopo ci si lamentava per la fabbricazione del cervello positronico.

Of such things, petty annoyance and aimless thrusts, is history made.