Quotes About Evolution

For the people of that flowAre new, the oldNew to age as the youngTo youth

Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be.

You have dizzying change where there's no progress.

for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.

En cuanto al ser humano, no debe esperarse que escape, en su larga trayectoria, a la suerte de los animales inferiores. Si hay una ley biológica de flujo y reflujo, su situación es ahora muy peligrosa. Durante diez mil años su número ha aumentado constantemente a pesar de las guerras, las pestes y las hambres. Biológicamente, la prosperidad del ser humano es demasiado larga.

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

My skin has turned to porcelain, to ivory, to steel.

That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Knight instead.

The godswife thought her a child, but children grow, and children learn.

Trebali smo promijeniti svijet,zar ne?Sranje.Umjesto toga svijet je promijenio nas.

It is as if I were a stranger here. Nothing has changed, and yet everything has changed - Theon Greyjoy

times may change, but men do not.

In those days, the smell of leather and blood had clung to him like perfume. Now it was perfume that clung to him like perfume,

The day you make them all is the day you stop improving. - Alleras

Kill the boy and let the man be born.

We've changed kins since then, some of us twice. No one cares, no one remembers.

A man does not fly like a bird, but one foot moves and then another and one day a man is there, and a king dies.

I'm free of Tysha now, he thought. She's haunted me half my life, but I don't need her anymore, no more than I need Alayaya or Dancy or Marei, or the hundreds like them I've bedded with over the years. I have Shae now. Shae.

One war ends, another begins.

Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

Pleasures and pains must have been evolved as the subjective accompaniment of processes which are respectively beneficial or injurious to the organism, and so evolved for the purpose or to the end that the organism should seek the one and shun the other.

Up from the South they came in increasing droves,

revolution was taking place in Negro society.

No one makes a revolution by himself; and there are some revolutions which humanity accomplishes without quite knowing how, because it is everybody who takes them in hand.