Quotes About Evolution

When a caterpillar changes into a butterfly it loses it's caterpillar life.

She was the one who was supposed to have walked with him through different lives, being born and loving and dying and being born again. They'd been born for each other, to help each other grow and blossom and discover and evolve.

You've changed me, she thought. Not just showing me that boys aren't all pond scum. You've made me different, made me look at the broader picture. Given me vision.

And this is how the ending starts.

You were right," he said faintly. "Change is good-or at least necessary. Take the shard.

if I take much more, you will begin to change. And

Nothing resembles today so much as tomorrow.

A man of variable mind is not one man, but several men in one; he multiplies himself as often as he changes his taste and manners; he is not this minute what he was the last, and will not be the next what he is now; he is his own successor.

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

A high place of honor, although doubtless one to be obtained only after enduring the pangs of a prolonged crucifixion, awaits that philosophical biologist, or that philosopher sufficiently acquainted with scientific biology, who subjects the modern doctrine of evolution to a thoroughly critical analysis, with a view to detect and to estimate its metaphysical assumptions.

History often has a difficult time catching up to the events it records.

Well my music was different in high school; I was singing about love—you know, things I don't care about anymore.

Perhaps, after trillions of ages burning in different dynasties of suns, the very best of me may come together again.

Well dressed to-day; only a langouti tomorrow. --Mauritius proverb

What I do, Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be.

I am a completely different person when I am working on different collections.

We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer for other times and places. Perhaps it has always been so. We know it is true today.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Our time has been distinguished, more than by anything else, by a mastery, a control, of the external world, and by an almost total forgetfulness of the internal world. If one estimates human evolution from the point of view of knowledge of the external world, then we are in many respects progressing. If our estimate is from the point of view of the internal world, and of oneness of internal and external, then the judgment must be very different.

A kiss must end for another to begin, and it did, and did again.

An idea fell like a seed and over the next weeks it went on growing like a fig vine lush and conquering twining round her old beliefs and covering them in new growth until they were as invisible as a tiger in a thicket and just as deadly.

It wasn't even an alternate version of his life. He hadn't gone back in time and done everything differently to get to this place. It turned out that sometimes it's enough to start doing things differently now.

To a new generation of butterflies, hopefully less stupid than last. Maybe they were burgeoning even now in fat little cocoons. Or maybe not.