Quotes About Evolution

Men raised in a culture of blood revenge do not change in a day.

The ones he bred there in the desert, their bodies changed—or changed back, I should say. Their chests expanded from the effort of running in the sand, their eyelashes thickened to keep the fine particles out.

At the present rate of technical development, electronic mail is probably no more than one or two decades away, so in the Tehaneys' world of 2081 it will have been taken for granted long since.

we can find a balanced way forward that will allow us to embrace technology but not become technology, to use it as a tool and not as a purpose.

The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals.

To change and to change for the better are two different things.

Over time, and perhaps because of his contact with human beings, the Doctor mellowed and became less irascible. But his brilliance and his passion for justice remained undiminished. …

out of darkness i come, a woman. and on i go and on.

History takes time. History makes memory.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

For a very long time everybody refuses and then almost without a pause almost everybody accepts.

The longer you remain in Rome,' said [Cardinal] S.C., 'the smaller you will find it.

Everything since Homer has improved, except poetry.

In the old days, books had awful covers and marvelous content; nowadays, the opposite happens.

Man for Leopardi is first and foremost an animal, and his history is merely the last section of the much more ancient history of all living species, which in their turn are an integral part of the entire ecological system.

But what came easily to Homer (and to Xenophon, in prose) was no longer easily available to the moderns, who introduced the presence of the representing subject into representation itself (Byron being a prime example in the Zibaldone).

Tutti i secoli, più o meno, sono stati e saranno di transizione, perché la società umana non istà mai ferma, né mai verrà secolo nel quale ella abbia stato che sia per durare. ( Dialogo di Tristano e di un amico )

Tutto si è perfezionato da Omero in poi, ma non la poesia.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

I try to contrast life today is full of contrast... We have to change.

processor performance doubles roughly every eighteen months, but memory performance doubles roughly every seven years.

F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, having been prolonged to 10 days (in Durban 70 years ago), truncated to as few as 60 balls (in Hong Kong every year), and remained recognisable in each instance?

An even more pointed reminder of changed circumstances, of course, is the AIG symbol sported, doubtless with some chagrin, by Manchester United, worth £14 million a year to the club when the deal was done thirty months ago, but now as ignominiously conspicuous as mouthing a slogan for Luftschiffbau Zeppelin in May 1937: 'You'll always travel Fuhrer class on the Hindenburg!' Man