Quotes About Evolution

the more adapted an organism was to present conditions, the less adaptable it tended to be to unknown future conditions.

In all known life, there are primarily twenty different amino acids. Stringing these twenty amino acids together in varied sequences produces varied proteins, just as intelligently stringing together the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet in varied sequences will produce varied sentences and sonnets.

Fisher's Fundamental Theorem states—in terms appropriate to the present context—that the better adapted a system is to a particular environment, the less adaptable it is to new environments.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing. Advance with it!

Systems die; instincts remain.

Man is the only creature endowed with the power of laughter.

It usually takes 100 years to make a law, and then, after it's done its work, it usually takes 100 years to be rid of it.

That is the beauty of the Common Law, it is a maze and not a motorway.

Every new time will give its law.

The law must be stable and yet it must not stand still.

If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.

In literary history, generation follows generation in a rage.

The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine.

Man is a tool-using animal.

I teach you beyond Man (superman). Man is something that shall be surpassed. What have you done to surpass him?

What once were vices are now manners.

At twenty a man is a peacock, at thirty a lion, at forty a camel, at fifty a serpent, at sixty a dog, at seventy an ape, at eighty, nothing at all.

It is always the minorities that hold the key of progess; it is always through those who are unafraid to be different that advance comes to human society.

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

Irene Claremont de Castillego

Everyone expects to go further than his father went; everyone expects to be better than he was born and every generation has one big impulse in its heart-to exceed all the other generations of the past in all the things that make life worth living.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

For most singers the first half of the career involves extending one's repertoire, the second half trimming it.

No great thing is created suddenly.