Quotes About Evolution

If Noah found himself back on Earth, you can bet all he would recognize would be the jokes.

The future is the shape of things to come.

The future is the past in preparation.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Recognizing what we have done in the past is a recognition of ourselves. By conducting a dialogue with our past, we are searching how to go forward.

Here's to the past. Thank God it's past!

It's but little good you'll go a-water-ing the last year's crop.

How the past perishes is how the future becomes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.... We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe?

Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.

The past which is so presumptuously brought forward as a precedent for the present was itself founded on some past that went before it.

"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that's better.

Today is yesterday's pupil.

Today is the blocks with which we build.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

If we have not achieved our early dreams, we must either find new ones or see what we can salvage from the old. If we have accomplished what we set out to do in our youth, we need not weep like Alexander the Great that we have no more worlds to conquer.

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

Many terms which have now dropped out of favour will be revived, and those that are at present respectable, will drop out, if useage so choose with whom resides the decision and the judgment and the code of speech.

I wonder what language truck drivers are using, now that everyone is using theirs?

Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing ever wider and richer.