Quotes About Evolution

For it seems that long before the first enterprising man bent some twigs into a leaky roof, many animals were already accomplished builders.

Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.

Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny.

Without the help of selfishness, the human animal would never have developed. Egoism is the vine by which man hoisted himself out of the swamp and escaped from the jungle.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of every ten members of the human race are swine, and as crooked as a hog's tail.

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.

Five thousand years have added no improvement to the hive of the bee, nor to the house of the beaver; but look at the habitations and the achievements of men!

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

Light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history.

The man of the millennium is much more liberated than the man of the '90s.

Language is one of the greatest gifts man has devised for himself. It ranks, alongside the discovery of fire and the wheel, as a major influence in making modern man what he is today.

Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations.

Man was nature's mistake she neglected to finish him and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

The survival of the fittest is going to make some man very lonesome some day.

The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman — a rope over an abyss.

Man is something to be surpassed.

I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed.

In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs.

I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before.

There are many more women who identify as unique people as well as mothers, or instead of as mothers, than there used to be and, hopefully, there are more men who identify as fathers.