Quotes About Evolution

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.

I'm a better person now, and not only that - I'm a better man

I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

You must learn to see men and women...as perfect beings advancing to become complete.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

A process which led from the amoeba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress though whether the amoeba would agree with this opinion is not known.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

I can no longer seduce because I love my husband. I don't want to hurt him. I am no longer a man-eater.

I am not the same man you found that day! The monster you've created has returned, to kill you!

First I would probably place men at the bottom of the food chain. On a grander scale, I would say they're reacting to change. Feminism has got to be part of that.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

Passing into higher forms of desire, that which slumbered in the plant, and fitfully stirred in the beast, awakes in the man.

The only difference between the Adamic man and the man of today is that the one was born to Paradise and the other has to create it.

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.