Quotes About Evolution

On leaf of palm, on sedge-wrought roll; on plastic clay and leather scroll, man wrote his thoughts; the ages passed, and lo! the Press was found at last!

I believe that the end of things man-made cannot be very far away - must be near at hand.

The categories of woman and man are too rigid. They're going to give way to new forces. They already have, to a degree, but for most of us, this drama held sway, and we assumed our positions.

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

Nature, by its very nature, is very brutal and unequal. However, Man has somehow managed to transform the nature of its brutality and inequality.

Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today upon a man's murder.

I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.

I got to know Sterling Hayden fairly well. He was a quiet man, who got more complicated as the years went on.

How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!

It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals.

I'm happy to be on a show that's bridging that gap of 'Okay, I'm not a teenager anymore, I'm a man.'

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

In fact man's career has been less like a mountain torrent hurtling from rock to rock, than a great sluggish river, broken very seldom by rapids.

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out.

For at least 2,000,000 years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated spaceship called earth.

Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

Man is a talking animal and he will always let himself be swayed by the power of the word. Machines won't change human nature.

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.