Quotes About Evolution

Almost everyone, it seems, at first glance expects television to dig radio's final resting place.

Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!"

Instead of being born again, why not just grow up?

Science is the record of dead religions.

Amœbas at the start Were not complex; They tore themselves apart, And started Sex. And Sex has thrilled the earth From then to this, Producing grief and mirth And pain and bliss. Through Sex the seedling wakes To cleave the ground; 'Tis really Sex that makes The world go round...

The microwave oven is the consolation prize in our struggle to understand physics.

Virtually every process is best carried out at one time or other of the year and that is not something to take lightly... There is much more to seasonality, though, than breeding or migration. Virtually every internal process alters... We humans were clearly highly seasonal beasts until the coming of electric light but traces remain.

autumn strolls, winter slithers spring skips, summer swims

The sun shines different ways in summer and winter. And we shine differently in the seasons of our lives.

summer leads into autumn autumn leafs into winter winter leans into spring spring leaps into summer

Seasons depart peripherally.

A bud can be beautiful, a work of art even. But I'm finding it simply can't compare to the openness of the blossom. Looking for my sun.

September is more than a month, really; it is a season, an achievement in itself. It begins with August's leftovers and it ends with October's preparations...

I'm not sentimental about anything. Life flows by, and you flow with it or you don't. Move on and move out.

He thought of the smoked glass one was supposed to use to look at the sun during an eclipse. Surely this much beauty must be an evolutionary mistake: To steal the breath of onlookers cannot lead to increase of the human species. Perhaps such beauty didn't have anything to do with humans. Perhaps he was merely standing in the path of something else, caught in the crossfire of the gods as they signal with their sacred mirrors.

The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done that way."

History is not the past. It is the stories we tell about the past. How we tell these stories - triumphantly or self-critically, metaphysically or dialectally - has a lot to do with whether we cut short or advance our evolution as human beings.

activism can be the journey rather than the arrival;

Since World War II, we have known that the old man—the consuming man, the purely technological man, the wholly materialistic man—must die. Our problem has been that no one better has come forward to take his place.

I have crossed an ocean I have lost my tongue from the root of the old one a new one has sprung

I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago. ("Wants")

Then I got out of the bubble.

God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed -- that is the meaning of evolution.

The possession of such a big brain was no doubt an asset to these 'intelligent, spiritually sensitive, resourceful creatures'8 and the fossil record suggests that they were the dominant species on the planet from about 100,000 years ago until 40,000 years ago.