Quotes About Evolution

India is at one with the most puritan faiths of the world in her declaration that progress is from seen to unseen, from the many to the One, from the low to the high, from the form to the formless, and never in the reverse direction.

They become what they think. We will become [only] by [degrees].

Change is always subjective. All through evolution you find that the conquest of nature comes by change in the subject.

Again, we must consider, religion is a [matter of] growth, not a mass of foolish words.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur…. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens—and when it happens, it lasts." - John Wooden

A lion is a mammal like us; an octopus is put together completely differently, with three hearts, a brain that wraps around its throat, and a covering of slime instead of hair. Even their blood is a different color from ours; it's blue, because copper, not iron, carries its oxygen.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to reamin the same but get better...

The whole world is a gigantic legacy. Imagine having to start afresh each generation: who would invent the wheel, devise the lever, construct the alphabet and multiplication table? I could not; could you?

It has taken about four billion years for living systems, mostly in the sea, to transform the lifeless ingredients of early Earth into the Eden that makes our lives possible, and less than a century for us to destabilize those rhythms.

But sometimes dreams change,

I think you will come to Balzac yet. When one has disproved all one's theories, outgrown all of one's standards, discarded all one's criterions, and left off minding about one's appearance, one comes to Balzac. And there he is, waiting outside his canvas tent—with such a circus going on inside.

Change. The more you do it, the more you don't. The farther you seek it, the nearer you find it. The less it's in your world, the more it's in you.

Chasing the past, I stumbled into the future.

I have always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Sometimes things need to get broken

And I think about how I used to be the one who fixed things. How I used to be the strong one. When did this happen to me? What have I become? Effie

Extinguished theologians lie about the cradle of every science as the strangled snakes beside that of Hercules.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

Published April, 1920

The backbone of western civilization is racially Nordic, the Alpines and Mediterraneans being effective precisely to the extent in which they have been Nordicized and vitalized. If

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.