Quotes About Evolution

The future does not belong to men.

Every man is his own Pygmalion, and spends his life fashioning himself. And in fashioning himself, for good or ill, he fashions the human race and its future.

Mental differences between the lowest men and the animals are less than those between the lowest and the highest man.

In design man becomes what he is. Animals have language and perception as well, but they do not design.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

History never repeats itself. Man always does.

Not in his goals but in his transitions, man is great.

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

Nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.

Self-realization is a process of permanent auto-creation, an elaboration of the new man at the expense of the old.

The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.

A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.

My future's about trying to be a better man

I believe that man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Man is still an ape in that he forgets what is not ever before his eyes.

By 1985, machines will be capable of doing any work Man can do.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

A man must constantly exceed his level

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Men are in fact, quite unable to control their own inventions; they at best develop adaptability to the new conditions those inventions create.

Man is born barbarous--he is ransomed from the condition of beasts only by being cultivated.