Quotes About Evolution

There is nothing good in this world which time does not improve.

The moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine.

The surest poison is time.

Time is the greatest innovator.

Any ritual is an opportunity for transformation.

The world gets better every day - then worse again in the evening.

All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves.

Acorns were good till bread was found.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

To try to be better is to be better.

One must not hold one's self so divine as to be unwilling occasionally to make improvements in one's creations.

New roads; new ruts.

All progress is based upon the universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.

And from the discontent of man The world's best progress springs.

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.

Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork?

A thousand things advance; nine hundred and ninety-nine retreat; that is progress.

The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.