Quotes About Evolution

The Russians stopped being the bad guys back in the twentieth century!

History is an omelet. The eggs are already broken.

The story is nothing like what you first thought it would be. But so what? It's better - richer, deeper, truer - than the original idea. The idea did its work: it got you thinking. After that, if you feel bound to stick to it no matter what, that idea becomes a ball and chain that you drag with you through the whole process.

All boys? A few girls. They don't often pass the test to get in. Too many centuries of evolution are working against them.

It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born homo sapiens.

La naturaleza no puede hacer evolucionar a las especies que no tienen un deseo de supervivencia.

When changes come, we start with what we are right then, and then we work to try to become whoever we need to be.

As far as the rest of the biosphere is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution. But humanity doesn't want to die. As a species, we have evolved to survive.

it's not unusual in history for the solution to one problem to become the root of the next one.

The trick of it was finding a way to let new things into one's life without killing that life to accommodate them.

If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

I beg your pardon I didn't recognise you - I've changed a lot.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow.

And, after all, what is a fashion? From the artistic point of view, it is usually a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

And all at once, summer collapsed into fall.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

Above his desk he tacked a line he remembered from the Persian poet, Rumi: Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I have begun to change myself.

We have always absorbed our own disintegration.

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.

If I understand Change, I shall make no great mistake in Life