Quotes About Evolution

The convention of one age is the laughing-stock of the next.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.

Rice is born in water and must die in wine.

Our passions are true phœnixes: as the old burn out, the new straight rise up out of the ashes.

Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.

Experience is climbing the ladder built from your mistakes.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends. For every friend whom he loses for truth, he gains a better.

Here is God's purpose — for God, to me it seems, is a verb — not a noun, proper or improper...

Loss — the great redefiner of life.

Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to Self-realisation. Yoga means union — the union of body with consciousness and consciousness with the soul. Yoga cultivates the ways of maintaining a balanced attitude in day-to-day life and endows skill in the performance of one's actions.

A cross-section of our society to-day represents the entire geological formation of human nature for 40,000 years. We need but look on the faces of the men about us as we go down the street. All history is here this minute.

...the snail trail of history...

There's a tension to being human... People are the only animals that die in childbirth... on a regular basis, I mean. It's really common for our species. Even now, with all our modern medicine... It's because of our brains... It makes you what you are, but it doesn't fit easily through a tiny birth canal.

Those who reject biological evolution do so, usually, not out of reason, but out of unjustified vanity.

We are monkeys with money and guns.

Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.

I have sometimes held forth (facetiously, so my listeners believed) that the chief distinguishing trait between man and the other animals is that man is the only animal that maltreats the females of his kind. It is something of which no wolf nor cowardly coyote is ever guilty. It is something that even the dog, degenerated by domestication, will not do.

He had learned to get along without her. Her meaning was forgotten. There was no place for her in his scheme of things, as there was no place for him in hers.

When the unexpected does happen, however, and when it is of sufficiently grave import, the unfit perish. They do not see what is not obvious, are unable to do the unexpected, are incapable of adjusting their well-grooved lives to other and strange grooves. In short, when they come to the end of their own groove, they die.

The rise of the Oligarchy will always remain a cause of secret wonder to the historian and the philosopher. Other great historical events have their place in social evolution. They were inevitable. Their coming could have been predicted with the same certitude that astronomers to-day predict the outcome of the movements of stars. Without

You can no more make water run up hill than can you cause the tide of economic evolution to flow back in its channel along the way it came.

I could neither laugh with nor at the solemn utterances of men I esteemed ponderous asses; nor could I laugh, nor engage in my old-time lightsome persiflage, with the silly superficial chatterings of women, who, underneath all their silliness and softness, were as primitive, direct, and deadly in their pursuit of biological destiny as the monkeys women were before they shed their furry coats and replaced them with the furs of other animals.

You forget how I talked when you first met me. I have learned a new language since then. Before that time I talked as that girl talks. Now I can manage to make myself understood sufficiently in your language to explain that you do not know that other girl's language.