Quotes About Evolution

Laws have come down to us from old customs and folk-ways based on primitive ideas of man's origin, capacity and responsibility.

Man is born as a freak of nature, being within nature and yet transcending it. He has to find principles of action and decision-making which replace the principles of instincts.

There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

Without men, civilization would last until the oil needed changing.

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

The origin of civilization is man's determination to do nothing for himself which he can get done for him.

Some people are boys longer than others.

If our vaunted rule of the people does not breed nobler men and women than monarchies have done it must and will inevitably give place to something better.

When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I am going to live as if I were a great man.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

I became a man. Before that I was a little boy.

We can, following the exemple of Kant, consider the moral development and improvement of men, as the supreme goal of human evolution.

Every day, man is making bigger and better fool-proof things, and every day, nature is making bigger and better fools. So far, I think nature is winning.

Everything has changed except the way man thinks (when the hydrogen bomb was exploded)

He could not change the man he had been, but these hands would make him the man he could be

The aspect of American society is animated, because men and things are always changing; but it is monotonous, because all the changes are alike.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.

In the long years liker they must grow; The man be more of woman, she of man.

And ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

Can the synthesis of man and machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded?

What we makes of the world must be largely dependent on the sense-organs that we happen to possess. How the world must have changed since the man came to rely on his eyes rather than his nose.