Quotes About Evolution

States, like men, have their growth, their manhood, their decrepitude, their decay.

The biggest dog has been a pup.

What you become is what counts.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off fr'm th' angels.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

There are 193 living species of monkeys and apes. 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape, self-named Homo Sapiens.

I believe I've found the missing link between animal and civilized man. It is us.

To be reborn is a constantly recurring human need.

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

That man is an aggressive creature will hardly be disputed. With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate habitually destroys members of its own species.

Comedy is tragedy - plus time.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

Truthfully, being pregnant is changing me as a person. Each day is part of this amazing journey that has completely shifted the focus of my life and made me reevaluate my personal and professional goals.

It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.

You can be non-judgmental, but you don't want to be non-discerning because, remember, the force of evolution is the conversation, you know: two truths standing up to each other in conversation, and the best truth emerges, and the best truth prevails.

Could you imagine if we could leapfrog language and communicate directly with human thought? What would we be capable of then? And how will we learn to deal with the truths of unfiltered human thought? You think the Internet was big. These are huge questions.

I like to try new looks and new haircuts. It's part of who I am.

You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.

I learn something new every game. Every game is always different, no matter how you try and think about it beforehand.

If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.