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Quotes About Evolution

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
~ Wendell Phillips
Progress - the stride of God!
~ Victor Hugo
And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, drest.
~ John Grey
The time is comin' whin not more thin hath iv us'll be rale, an' th' rest'll be rubber, (plastic!)
~ Finley Peter Dunne
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
~ Anatole France
A nation without the means of reform is without the means of survival.
~ Edmund Burke
One revolution is like one cocktail, it just gets you organized for the next.
~ Will Rogers
Revolutions are not made; they come.
~ Wendell Phillips
I don't tell the truth any more to those who can't make use of it. I tell it mostly to myself, because it always changes me.
~ Anais Nin
Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.
~ Hazel Henderson
Autumn to winter, winter into spring. Spring, into summer, summer into fall, - So rolls the changing year, and so we change; -Motion so swift, we know not that we move.
~ Dinah Mulock Craik
Never think you've seen the last of anything.
~ Eudora Welty
"Safety first" has been the motto of the human race for half a million years; but it has never been the motto of leaders.
~ Anonymous
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found.
~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Who you are is a necessary step to being who you will be.
~ Emmanuel
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
~ Francis Bacon
Sex is a relatively recent addition to the dance of life. For more than 2,000,000,000 years, asexual reproduction was the rule. You know, if you were a creature, you just separated into two clones.
~ Mark Jerome Walters
Two-parent sex appeared on the scene about 500,000,000 years ago.
~ Mark Jerome Walters
Amoebas at the start were not complex -They tore themselves apart and started sex.
~ Arthur Guiterman
All the great speakers were bad speakers at first.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you said today.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We're still not where we're going, but we're not where we were.
~ Natash Jasefowitz
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.
~ John Dewey
I've been here so long . . . when I got here the Dead Sea wasn't even sick yet.
~ Wimp Sanderson