Quotes About Evolution

We think our civilization near its meridian, but we are yet only at the cock-crowing and the morning star.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

Every dogma has its day.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. ... Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradicts everything you said today.

To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years and to take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.

Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.

Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

The first step toward change is acceptance. Once you accept yourself, you open the door to change. That's all you have to do. Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.

Other times, other customs.

What we call the beginning is often an end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

Time, in the turning-over of days, works change, for better or worse.

Time bears away all things.

Time brings all things to pass.

We live in an epoch in which the solid ground of our preconceived ideas shakes daily under our certain feet.

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.

Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

Everyday ... life confronts us with new problems to be solved which force us to adjust our old programs accordingly.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

When you were a tadpole and I was a fish in the Palaozoic time And side by side in the sluggish tide, we sprawled in the ooze and slime.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.