Quotes About Evolution

This is the problem with inventing. Virtually everything has been done already. These days most things are just the same things but tweaked. Everything is 'new and improved'.

We always interfere with nature. I think if tennis players continue to wear headbands they will end up killing off eyebrows, as they're there to catch sweat.

Cilv?kiem pat?k tr?t m?les un kladzin?t. Cilv?ks nav vis c?lies no p?rti?a, bet gan no vistas.

but one cannot look backward, only forward. What has passed has passed forever.

You can step in the same river but the water will always be new.

Sometimes I would like to cry. I close my eyes. Why weren't we designed so that we can close our ears as well? (Perhaps because we would never open them.) Is there some way that I could accelerate my evolution and develop earlids?

If she had been in charge of designing the human race she would have gone about things differently. (A golden shaft of light through the ear for conception perhaps and a well-fitting hatch somewhere modest for escape nine months later.)

In the endgame a pawn can change into a queen.

It would be like a Hardy novel, before it all goes wrong.

I wanted her for what she was, but when I got her I wanted her to change.

First things were good, last things not so much so.

In the half-century of his life, a tick on the Doomsday clock, he had borne witness to the most unbelievable technological advances. He had started off listening to an old Bush radio in the corner of the living room and now he had a phone in his hand on which he could pretend to throw a scrunched-up piece of paper into a waste bin. The world had waited a long time for that.

Everything changes and nothing remains still. PLATO, Cratylus

no book could ever be left in the condition you found it in because it was changed every time it was read by someone.

After Marlee was born they rented videos and fell asleep in front of them. Now, like so much else in Jackson's world, videos were obsolete.

In the past few years I have begun the process of becoming a new man.

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner.

I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.

I don't look like a leading man, whatever they look like. It's changing a little.

In its amplest meaning History includes every trace and vestige of everything that man has done or thought since first he appeared on the earth.

Some men tend to cling to old intellectual excitements, just as some belles, when they are old ladies, still cling to the fashions and coiffures of their exciting youth.

There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.

When Man evolved Pity, he did a queer thing - deprived himself of the power of living life as it is without wishing it to become something different.