Quotes About Evolution

People too often knock down the old for the new instead of understanding that legacy.

Ends and beginnings—there are no such things. There are only middles. ROBERT FROST

maybe waiting. No matter how both of them had changed, evolved, restructured their lives, at the base they remained who they were.

Everything seemed paused for change, but was she? Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. And, she admitted, she prized routine, tradition, even repetition.

If we can't be entertained, there're only two places to go. Back to the cave, or on to oblivion.

It's easy to romanticize after a couple of centuries.

happening to and

didn't surprise Jake, he'd been watching it build all along.

me to make a mistake. He's

She was what she was. Or had been what she was, she corrected. God only knew what she was now.

He didn't look the way he used to, but neither did he look

The penis is here to stay, so those of us without them must learn to appreciate, exploit, ignore, and/or utilize them, depending on our own needs and goals.

What happens before matters because it shapes things. But who you were a year ago isn't as important as who you are now.

Science and education are part of what turned magic from the acceptable into the condemned, then into the dismissed.

The grouper isn't one of your prettier fish, but it's versatile. They're all born female and produce eggs before they change sex and become functioning males.

News was only news until something else came along.

transformation

years before.

To improve is to change; To be perfect is to change often. —WINSTON CHURCHILL

Can't fix what used to be, only what is coming up.

As long as she considered herself a work in progress, she wouldn't stop trying to learn, to become, to make more of herself.

T]he social canons and methods by which people build up instinct controls in their communal life are not brought into being deliberately; they evolve over long periods, blindly and without plan. Irregularities and contradictions in drive-controls, huge fluctuations in their severity or leniency, are therefore among the recurrent structural features of the civilizing process.

Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.

It is the thesis of this book that society can only be understood through a study of the messages and the communication facilities which belong to it; and that in the future development of these messages and communication facilities, messages between man and machines, between machines and man, and between machine and machine, are destined to play an ever-increasing part.