Quotes About Evolution

she'd sometimes wondered what good all those sorries were if nothing ever changed

Instead of fixing himself, he drank and made himself worse, but the man he became was not the man he was

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention. Lately

Then, I saw tragedy in it; now I see beauty.

We understand the value of forgetting, the lure of reinvention.

Yo procedo de una generación más reservada. Comprendemos el valor de olvidar, el aliciente de reinventarnos.

We must honor the past without turning our backs on the future.

My new life was marking me. It was happening so quickly. There were intermittent spells of resistance, during which I'd pluck and moisturize and exfoliate, and then there was a period of grieving for my old self, who seemed to be disappearing toward the horizon, and then I relaxed into it.

We didn't need a new house after all. When something isn't working, you don't always need to tear down the whole structure. Sometimes you just pull down a wall, reinvent, put some new skin on the old bones. And it's lovely.

But the past determines who we are, and it has led to this sartling future.

I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better.

Since the turn of the century, American fundamentalists had reveled in their sense of persecution by an infidel elite, but in the 1960s the atheist tyranny became official. In 1962 and 1963 the Supreme Court decided in two cases, with only one dissenter in each instance, that it was unconstitutional for public schools to conduct organized prayer or Bible readings, and in 1968 the court finally ruled—unanimously—that states could not ban the teaching of evolution.

No new technology, during the thousand years between gunpowder and the steam engine, was as disruptive as the printing press

If you want to truly understand something, try to change it.

Cultures are made of continuities and changes, and the identity of a society can survive through these changes. Societies without change aren't authentic; they're just dead

Por más que hayamos progresado, los sentimientos verdaderos de las personas no han cambiado.

When her last name had still been Voronova

You haven't become anything," she whispered. "You're the same man I fell in love with nearly ten years

I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.

I know my past ain't one you can easily get past/But that chapter is done" —JAY-Z

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

In his last years, Lovecraft dropped practically all his ethnic phobias and denounced the very opinions he had earlier flaunted.

I'll be a lady tomorrow

Nobody is perfect. However life gives us a chance to be today what we were unable to be yesterday.