Quotes About Evolution

Success cannot come from standstill men. Methods change and men must change with them.

Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

We seem to be trapped by a civilization that has accelerated many physical aspects of evolution but has forgotten that other vital part of man -- his mind and his psyche.

Since Freud, the center of man is not where we thought it was; one has to go on from there.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

Once you were apes, yet even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

Scientific man is already on the moon, and yet we are still living with the moral concepts of Homer.

The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

The mark of a civilized man is his willingness to re-examine his most cherished beliefs.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Man is fatally slow on the uptake; it always takes him until the next generation to understand what's going on.

If the world is to change for the better it must start with a change in human consciousness, in the very humanness of modern man.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Evolution teaches us the original purpose of language was to ritualize men's threats and curses, his spells to compel the gods; communication came later.

Do you remember how electrical currents and 'unseen waves' were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.