Quotes About Evolution

Who am I really? Am I still the same person if I'm not even technically a person anymore? Does being stronger make me different? Will it?

The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.

That's the problem with life. Things seldom stay the same do they? And the future rarely turns out quite the way we expect.

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change.

When Homo sapiens came along, after all, the Neanderthals had a hard time, and virtually all animals were subdued. The lucky ones became pets, the unlucky lunch.

and what is writ, is writ, Would it were worthier! but I am not now That which I have been

Self-observation brings man to the realization of the necessity of self-change. And in observing himself a man notices that self-observation itself brings about certain changes in his inner processes. He begins to understand that self-observation is an instrument of self-change, a means of awakening.

Darwinian evolution has obviously not had enough time to work.

Memories are to attitudes what fossils are to their living descendants.

No cultural habit ever totally fades out of human life. It just loses market share.

Women, as they grow older, rely more and more on cosmetics. Men, as they grow older, rely more and more on a sense of humor.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

Days change so many things -- yes, hours -- we see so differently in suns and showers.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

The human individual is equipped to learn and go on learning prodigiously from birth to death, and this is precisely what sets him or her apart from all other known forms of life.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

Aware of it or not, each of us is involved in the grand enterprise of evolution. The new information being generated in each of our lives contributes inevitably to the ever-increasing complexity and richness of the universe. Our key choice is whether to become aware of and take responsibility for the power of our intentionality.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

There is this difference between the growth of some human beings and that of others: in the one case it is a continuous dying, in the other a continuous resurrection.

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

We also like obsolete styles because the past is dead, and hence contains no surprises.