Quotes About Evolution

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump.

Wars come and wars go but the world does not change: it will always forget an indebtedness which it thinks it expedient not to remember.

I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

War is out of date, obsolete.

Wars usually have the effect of speeding up the process of history.

We can't be fighting the last war. We have to be preparing to fight the new war.

War is only an invention, not a biological necessity.

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Four guys go out and four guys go in like the storm troopers in the Star War movies.

War is progressive because all instruments of war are progressive.

Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.

It seems to me that if you were to take almost any half-century in history, you'd find a grand societal tug-of-war between the community and the individual.

The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person following 1918 than he was during the Victorian era.

History is a record of perpetual wars, but we are now trying to make new history.

Warfare ... is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention.

You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.

When I started out, it was considered very wrong to change an image. There were scandals if someone inserted a sky into a war picture or something. Now it's all about that.

That movie [War for the Planet of the Apes] is incredibly engaging; it's what drives the emotion of all these films. So tonight, we're going to show a long sequence that's actually going to be.

The War will leave none of us as it found us.

Every war has turning points and every person too.

The continuous war between the reactionary and the progressive forces determine the degree of mankind's happiness.

I wrote in the War of Art that I could divide my life neatly into two parts: before turning pro and after. After is better.

I'm as guilty as anyone, because I helped to herald the digital era with Jurassic Park. But the danger is that it can be abused to the point where nothing is eye-popping any more.

you can't say civilization dont advance, in every war they kill you in a new way