Quotes About Evolution

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo.

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture.

When men change, maybe Bond will change.

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won't be around to raise the children.

Modern science has vindicated the natural equality of man.

Man is a tool-making animal

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

I don't know, man. Look at me. I've changed. I've grown up. I've got a job, got a career ... I drink coffee now.

And the formation of man is the most pressing problem facing humanity.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

The man that created the theory of evolution by natural selection was thrown out by his Dad because he wanted him to be a doctor. GAWD, parents haven't changed much.

Language is a living thing. It must survive in men's minds and on their tongues if it survives at all.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

The Breath becomes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god.

I think that I was just on the cusp of the generation that was beginning to really challenge some of the assumptions about the role of women and the role of men on campus.

Does man Progress? A thousand questions answered yesterday create a thousand questions today.

Man has survived and prospered for more than 150,000 years on this planet without the help of use-by dates.

In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.

Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.