Quotes About Evolution

One of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

The seed is saved—what do we mean by "saved"? It frees the God within it by blossoming, by bearing fruit, by returning to earth once more. Let us help the seed to save itself. 20.

I have to constantly re-identify myself to myself, reactivate my own standards, my own convictions about what I'm doing and why.

Houses do fall, people are drowned and left rotting, but the general outline of the town persists, swelling here, shrinking there, like some low but indestructible form of life. Inland, the prospect alters.

US relations with the World Court and other international institutions have undergone a similar evolution, to which we return.

Our own accumulated experience becomes increasingly solidified over time. That is, we start to think we know how the world works, and things that accord with that evolving viewpoint we take in much more easily than things that seem to contradict how we think the world works. This evolution is a kind of ongoing process to the extent that we need to understand further and further how the world works.

Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.

anyone can consider what he now knows and can ask what he knew twenty years ago, and can see that in some unclear fashion he was striving towards something which he can only now understand … if he is fortunate.

The idea that you have to avoid teaching evolution or pretend you're not teaching it is unique in the industrial world. And the statistics are mind-boggling. Roughly half the population think the world was created a couple thousand years ago.

The new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. This is not pointed at anyone. —Max Planck

Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breathe in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breathe in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while. - Sleepless in Seattle

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it?

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

Hace poco vi una película en la que comían pizza para llevar en 1948, y casi me da algo. En 1948 no existía la pizza para llevar. Casi no existía la pizza y casi no existía la comida para llevar. Este

I used to think my problem was that my disk was full; now I'm forced to conclude that the opposite is true: it's becoming empty

conciencia para que encaje en el molde de estos años».

People and relationships never stop being a work in progress

The old goes into making us what we are, or what we're hell-bent on not being.

Who I am now is who I was before. The three years between, they were the aberration. You wouldn't recognize the person I became during that lost time. I barely do.

Coming from something doesn't make it what you are.

Continuity, he thought, wasn't the same as stagnation.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different.

theres only a little bit of that boy i got stuck with all those years ago left in there nick and its the best part