Quotes About Evolution

The speaker does not feel the grammatical rules he is said to apply in composing sentences, and men spoke grammatically for thousands of years before anyone knew there were rules.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

All life is evolving, for evolution is God's law; and man grows slowly and steadily along with the rest.

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman.

Progress is man's indifference to the lessons of history.

There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.

Now that we're men, I changed my underwear.

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it.

By changing the way you do routine things you allow a new man to grow inside you.

Man only progresses by slowly elaborating from age to age the essence and the totality of a universe deposited within him.

Man seems the only growth that dwindles here.

Progress is The law of life: man is not Man as yet.

The error of those who reason by precedents drawn from antiquity, respecting the rights of man, is that they do not go far enough into antiquity.

Man is the only animal to borrow tools.

Man is a history-making creature, who can neither repeat his past, nor leave it behind.

What man is, only his history tells.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

No doubt, man will continue to weigh and to measure, watch himself grow, and his Universe around him and with him, according to the ever growing powers of his tools.

Man's course begins in a garden, but it ends in a city.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.