Quotes About Evolution

Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Old wives' tales are not enough in a day when old wives and old men, too, are constantly moving away from their labours.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

What we will have attained when Neil Armstrong steps down upon the moon is a completely new step in the evolution of man.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.

Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.

One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of human history as one consistent process.

You're gonna laugh when I tell you this, man, but I'm starting to enjoy Eminem.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

As men begin to grow civilized, they cease to be satisfied with mere taboos.

Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.

Times don't change. Men do.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.

The instinct to notice changes gives women a tremendous advantage over men.

I was not always a man of woe.

Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.