Quotes About Evolution

I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

Man is an ape with possibilities.

Women become breadwinners, men become caregivers. That's the birth of intimate marriage.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

So we've moved from an era when women's biology was women's destiny to today, which is an era in which men's biology is men's destiny.

It is because of his brain that he [modern man] has risen above the animals. Guess which animals he has risen above.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

Men are creatures with eight hands.

Darwin was Wrong! Man's still an ape.

The finished man, you know, is difficult to please; a growing mind will ever show you gratitude. --Faust 1, lines 182-3

The tragedy of marriage is that while all women marry thinking that their man will change, all men marry believing their wife will never change.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

For God's sake, let us be men not monkeys minding machines or sitting with our tails curled while the machine amuses us, the radio or film or gramophone. Monkeys with a bland grin on our faces.

I do not see why men sheould be so proud insects have the more ancient lineage according to the scientists insects were insects when man was only a burbling whatisit.

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.

The legend of the jungle heritage and the evolution of man as a hunting carnivore has taken root in man's mind ... He may even believe that equal pay will do something terrible to his gonads.

The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious viciousness toward its own kind. Humanization was not a leap forward but a groping toward survival.

It seems as though women keep growing. Eventually they can have little or nothing in common with the men they chose long ago.

During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eighties they are caught between good hugs and bad hugs.

Wise and prudent men and intelligent conservatives have long known that in a changing world worthy institutions can be conserved only by adjusting them to the changing time.

Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end.

Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed.

Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary.