Quotes About Evolution

evolutionary naturalism offers an explanation of our knowledge that is seriously inadequate, when applied to the knowledge-generating capacities that we take ourselves to have.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead; it is the living only that has any right in it.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

The eye accustomed to darkness can hardly bear at first the broad daylight. It is by usage the eye learns to see, and it is the same in passing from any situation to its opposite.

At every step of this moving upward into larger life, from seed to man, pain is seen to be an attendant fact. The seed or bird or man could well say, "Thank you pain; by you I have come into higher, larger life."

Life is pretty simple You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.

What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song.

Someday she might replace whatever of her had gone away by some prosthetic device, a dress of a certain color, a phrase in a letter, another lover.

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

Masturbation: the primary sexual activity of mankind. In the nineteenth century it was a disease; in the twentieth, it's a cure.

Relying on the maxim that Principle is not bound by Precedent we should not limit our expectations of the future; and if our speculations lead us to the conclusion that we have reached a point where we are not only able, but also required, by the law of our own being, to take a more active part in our personal evolution than heretofore, this discovery will afford us a new outlook upon life and widen our horizon with fresh interests and brightening hopes.

If we are lucky, they were never retarded enough to create computer viruses and will have no such things as firewalls and security like we have. If they have never experienced a full blown computer failure we'll introduce them to the concept

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.

Agreement and acceptance rarely stimulate experiments and progress.

Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.

Three cheers have invented the wheel.

The office of the leisure class in social evolution is to retard the movement and to conserve what is obsolescent.

A mudança não é da natureza de uma transmutação de uma coisa em outra coisa inteiramente diferente, mas é simplesmente uma mudança de grau nas mesmas coisas, uma diferença muito importante.

A mente (tão bem como os metais e elementos) pode ser transmutada de estado em estado, de grau em grau, de condição em condição, de pólo em pólo, de vibração em vibração.

nada permanece más que el cambio.

Nothing stands still - everything is being born, growing, dying - the very instant a thing reaches its height, it begins to decline - the law of rhythm is in constant operations....