Quotes About Evolution

Move from wanting to see permanence in your life to realizing that all things change due to the nature of this being an ever-modifying world.

You see, progress cannot happen if you always do things the way you've always done them. As long as you are willing to stay as you are or to stick with the familiar or never try out anything new, then it is by definition impossible to grow.

El ser espiritual ve en el mundo físico un campo donde crecer y aprender, con el propósito específico de servir y evolucionar hacia niveles más elevados de amor.

all of life is a movement toward perfection

Abandon outmoded familial and cultural customs.

change our ingrained ways of thinking and see how our lives change as a result.

Creation takes place on its own timetable.

You don't learn much from a victory except to stay the same.

I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.

Thank you for helping me turn the page.

chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe

I realized that Garrett was right about one thing — I had flipped.

I had changed, and the sign of it was only that my own death seemed to me by far the least important thing in my life.

If change is to come, it will have to come from the margins.

A philosophy which cannot be received until men cease to believe in their own existence, must be in extremis. [What is Darwinism (New York, 1874), p. 17.]

Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.

You are the same today that you are going to be in five years from now except for two things the people with whom you associate and the books you read.

The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Did not learned men, too, hold, till within the last twenty-five years, that a flying dragon was an impossible monster? And do we not now know that there are hundreds of them found fossil up and down the world? People call them Pterodactyles: but that is only because they are ashamed to call them flying dragons, after denying so long that flying dragons could exist.

Religion--invaluable in America's founding, forming and flowering--deserves a place in the schools. Indeed, it had that place for almost 200 years. A healthy country would teach its children evolution--and the Ten Commandments.

The way I see it, dogs had this big meeting, oh, maybe 20,000 years ago. A huge meeting--an international convention with delegates from everywhere. And that's when they decided that humans were the up-and-coming species and dogs were going to throw their lot in with them. The decision was obviously not unanimous. The wolves and dingoes walked out in protest.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change; happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mood of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change for happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.