Quotes About Evolution

Busy remaking the world, man forgot to remake himself.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

Man developed in Africa. He has not continued to do so there.

What is conserved in the ground? Stone, bronze, ivory, bone, sometimes pottery. Never wood objects, no fabric or skins. That completely skews our notions about primitive man.

Each movie was a challenge for me, as a man, as an actor. After each movie, something changed in my life, in my character.

Man's life is a progress, not a station.

For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.

The man who is too set to change is dead already. The funeral is a mere detail.

Man is by definition the first and primary weed under whose influence all other weeds have evolved.

Matters change and morals change; men remain.

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive.

The superman is a premature ideal, one that presupposes man.

Since the day man first tried to conquer space, the earth has been mobilizing.

Dianetics is a milestone for man comparable to his discovery of fire and superior to his invention of the wheel and the arch.

-she remembered them kindly, for there was a sweetness in boys that didn't last long, once they became men.

Man is a degeneration of what he was.

The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.

Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realise his wishes- Now that he can realise them, he must either change them or perish

A man who does not make mistakes does not make anything

The study of thinking machines teaches us more about the brain than we can learn by introspective methods. Western man is externalizing himself in the form of gadgets.

It was a profound saying of Wilhelm Humboldt, that 'Man is man only by means of speech, but in order to invent speech he must be already man.'

Men are like fine wines - the older they get, the better they get.

It will be a shock to men when they realize that thoughts that were fast enough for today are not fast enough for tomorrow. But thinking tomorrow's thoughts today is one kind of future life.