Quotes About Evolution

Life is about growing and evolving. I feel like my life has been in stages, and the stages I went through when I was younger allowed me to grow into the man I am today.

Knowledge is cosmic. It does not evolve or unfold in man. Man unfolds to an awareness of it. He gradually discovers it.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

When the first man created Himself, He was the light of the circle. Then He willed the sun into being It was 6 trillion years between the making of the sun and the creation of man.

A new civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere are trying to suppress it.

A writer may tell me that he thinks man will ultimately become an ostrich. I cannot properly contradict him.

You can't keep changing men, so you settle for changing your lipstick.

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Don't try to capture a man in one synthetic portrait, but rather in lots of snapshots taken at different times and in different circumstances.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

The more I read my poems, the more I find out about them. I still read them with the same passion I felt when I wrote them as a young man.

Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.

I'm the product of 6 million years of evolution? Come on, man. I crawled out of a swamp yesterday.

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.

The great enemy of any attempt to change men's habits is inertia. Civilization is limited by intertia.

Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.

Men are like a fine wine. They all start out like grapes, and it's our job to stomp on them and keep them in the dark until they mature into something you'd like to have dinner with.

Contemporary thinkers would say that man is continuously transcending himself.

What does it take to change the essence of a man?

I predict the absolute fullness of man's operation on planet Earth by the year 2000 A.D.

Once fire was discovered, the instinct for improvement made men bring food to it. First to dry it, then to put it on the coals to cook.

Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him created from animals.

Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing