Quotes About Evolution

European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!

I was an English major in college, so I really liked spoken word and poetry; it was what I did before I wrote music.

Beast had once informed me that humans were hunters only by luck and because they had opposable thumbs.

With a little luck that epoch may arrive. I am on the side of those who think that things will go better when the world has changed.

Even with all its problems, I will support marriage as an institution until something better comes along.

Marriage, if it is to survive, must be treated as the beginning, not as the happy ending.

Each experience I go through - marriage, my public life, my personal life - I'm learning as I go.

The institution of marriage, if you look at it over many centuries, has come and gone.

There will be other forms in addition to our classic marriage. One is already looming on the horizon: polyamory, or having more than one intimate partner.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

There is something unnatural about marriage. These two people are not going to be the same people in a few years. The trick is to live your own life while sharing the same space.

I don't think marriages break up because of what you do to each other. They break up because of what you must become in order to stay in them.

I don't consider my marriages as failures! It's idiotic to assume that because a marriage ends, it's failed.

Even in civilized mankind faint traces of monogamous instinct can be perceived.

But after a certain point in a marriage, you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.

I have to wonder at what point the people fighting to protect marriage will realize that traditional couples haven't exactly been doing too good a job of it so far.

It opens our eyes to many quite weird possibilities about disease that most medical scientists, tending to be unaware of current evolutionary thought, don't think of.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.

A woman can't change a man because she loves him. A man changes himself because he loves her.

A man must shape himself to a new mark directly the old one goes to ground.

The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

A man is a man, until that man finds a plan, a plan that makes that man, a new man

Man can now fly in the air like a bird, swim under the ocean like a fish, he can burrow into the ground like a mole. Now if only he could walk the earth like a man, this would be paradise.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past