Quotes About Evolution

New York is notoriously inhospitable to the past, disowning it whenever it can.

My father was a Creole, his father a Negro, and his father a monkey; my family, it seems, begins where yours left off.

Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.

A building is a string of events belonging together.

Culture is something you cannot buy, something you cannot import, something you cannot learn or produce at will. A writer, an artist or musician cannot sit down and say 'Now I will produce culture.' Culture is something that evolves out of the simple, enduring elements of everyday life; elements most truthfully expressed in the folk arts and crafts of a nation.

It is the beginning of the end.

We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domestic plants and animals, but rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.

A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new.

Cost little less than new before they're ended.

Much will have to change in Canada if the country is to stay the same.

belongs anywhere, even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Confederation is only yet in the gristle, and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.

The big unions served a noble purpose once, and bless them for it. Now they're part of the problem and must give way if America is to move and to participate in management and achieve reasonable productivity.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

All things are subject to change, and we change with them. (Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.)

If you want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. (Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose.)

There is nothing permanent except change.

You can't step into the same river twice.

As one gets older, one discovers everything is going to be exactly the same with different hats on.

I see gr-reat changes takin' place ivry day, but no change at all ivry fifty years.

We change, whether we like it or not.

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.