Quotes About Evolution

advocates of evolutionary theory since Thomas H. Huxley (1825–95) have found altruism problematic.

Mr. Darwin demonstrated that we- male and female alike- were descended from wild animals. Women, held high in men's esteem and given the task of living up to a higher moral standard, seemed as capable as men of bestial behavior. Jonathan claimed that the women seduced him. It made sense, I suppose. It wasn't as if men evolved from beasts and women evolved from angels. But if women too gave free rein to our base wants, as I did in my dreams, what would happen to our society?

We have to move forward, sweetheart. And we can't do that if we hold on to what was.

Women provide the only true link to civilization. Men simply are not ruthless enough to survive on their own.

Change never hurt nobody, child. You know that. It's those who can't or won't change who lose.

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

It seems to me that every time we humans announce that here is the thing that makes us unique--our featherless bipedality, our tool-using, our language--some other species comes along to snatch it away. If modesty were a human trait, we'd have learned to be more cautious over the years.

Baby, high school's over. High school's never over..

An oft-told story is like a photograph in a family album; eventually, it replaces the moment it was meant to capture.

We need a sort of reverse mirror test. Some way to identify those species smart enough to see themselves when they look at someone else. Bonus points for how far out the chain you can go. Double bonus points for those who get all the way to insects.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off. —FRANZ KAFKA, "A Report for an Academy

Pheromones are Earth's primordial idiom.

The storm which blew me out of my past eased off.

Karen Joy Fowler

You might change and your reading might change as a result, but the book remained whatever it had always been

But change is the only constant, and life goes on.

Somehow, though, they managed to ignore the fact that being the dominant species on Earth meant that absolutely nothing about their position was inevitable or beyond their control.

Rock shrews. It had all started with damned rock shrews.

Men can always reinvent themselves," Laura said. "For women, once you're a mother, you're always a mother.

Marriages were perplexing animals, always changing, sometimes gentle, sometimes vicious.

My point is that you see these people in a way that I will never see them. Your experiences are no longer my experiences. I can't guide you any longer because I don't know where you're going.

membership consisted solely of sitting around and grousing about how much things had changed for the worse. All they could talk about was the good old days—how much better things had been before the coloreds ruined everything. What they didn't acknowledge was that the things that made it bad for them made it better for everyone else.

Laura was not a lonely teenaged girl anymore. She was fifty-five years old. She was a mother, a cancer survivor, a businesswoman. This was her life, Not Nick

fault. That the world isn't just changing. It's passing you by.