Quotes About Evolution

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

For its part, science is about being able to admit that you're wrong.

We went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative[s]," wrote one Bostonian, "and waked up stark mad abolitionists."7

Not every change is a step forward.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns.

History is on the move, Captain. Those who cannot keep up will be left behind, to watch from a distance

Vurawn was no more. In his place now stood Thrawn.

One whose path has taken a new turn is often initially disoriented. But as time passes, and the path continues steadily in its new direction, there is a tendency to believe that it will remain so forever, with no further turns. Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.

As weaponry advances, the techniques used against obsolete ordnance may be neglected or lost.

Nothing is further from the truth. A path once bent is always susceptible to new changes.

The production of knowledge itself points, often despite itself, toward a better future.

Any return to the past, to traditional values, will necessarily be mediated by the present.

Unlike other animals we are aware of our instincts, and as a result may attempt to shape or control them.

Life is about learning; when you stop learning, you die.

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them." —Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1947), mathematician and philosopher

Once the world of ideas has been transformed, reality cannot hold out for long. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Once, when I was young, I believed in democracy. When I was a little older, I believed in oligarchy, government by the enlightened few; after that, in monarchy, the rule of the philosopher-king. Now I believe only in drainage, public sanitation and clean water.

If the Good Lord had intended us to crawl, he'd have given us a hundred legs and an exosqueleton.

really primitive auditory hardware

flipping"—changing from one state of mind to another.

it had expanded in a nice, welcoming way, becoming ever rounder and softer without losing its essential shapeliness

the world she'd been raised to live in no longer existed.

Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.