Quotes About Evolution

Never, in his brief cave-life, had he encountered anything of which to be afraid.  Yet fear was in him.  It had come down to him from a remote ancestry through a thousand thousand lives.

La raza humana está destinada a internarse más y más en la noche de los tiempos primitivos, hasta que vuelva a empezar su sangrante marcha hacia la nueva civilización.

La raza humana está condenada a hundirse cada vez más en la noche primitiva antes de recomenzar algún día un nuevo ascenso sangriento hacia la civilización.

The truth is that we've always been greedy and stupid. We have no imagination, and the only reason we've survived this long is that we produce just enough smart people to keep us going.

We lost the wild bit by bit for ten thousand years and forgave each loss and then forgot.

I live in a constant flux; I am unable to make fixed plans.

work that he continued to develop throughout

as Google CEO Larry Page put it in his 2014 TED talk: "The main thing that has caused companies to fail, in my view, is that they missed the future.

People development should be a daily event, integrated into every aspect of your regular goings-on.

when the rate of change inside an institution becomes slower than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight. The only question is when.

New needs need new techniques.

cultural evolution; once it takes off, it goes as the ratio of those two numbers goes, at least a hundred times faster than biological evolution.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. Civilisation is not a collection of finished artefacts, it is the elaboration of processes. In the end, the march of man is the refinement of the hand in action.

But it is of critical importance to ask ourselves what features which other animals do not possess have given human beings the very special capacities with which we are concerned in these lectures: the ability to utter cognitive sentences (which no other animal can do) and the ability therefore to exercise knowledge and imagination.

Jacob Bronowski

That is, when one realizes the fact of a descent or degradation and corrects its causes, this itself causes an ascent to a level even higher and greater than the original one.

Without change, there can be no growth; and without growth, we stagnate and die.

suspended between the carefree child of the Sanctuary I had once been and the confident adult I wished to become.

It is a funny thing, how one's perspective changes.

She might not be completely at peace with the past, but rubbed along with it because it was part of who she had become.

It could be argued that we leave everything most loved with each new experience that demands we grow.

That's not necessarily a bad thing, is it? You bring old events and choices to the surface, and you change the vista—but spring will come, the soil will seed itself, that flood or drought will abate, and life goes on in that new landscape.

What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915

If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.