Quotes About Evolution

She began to feel that she had not yet gone through all the changes of opinion and sentiment, which the progress of time and variation of circumstances occasion in this world of changes.

These were reflections that required some time to soften; but time will do almost every thing…

Her mind was less difficult to develop.

What a revolution in her ideas!

There was certainly at this moment, in Elizabeth's mind, a more gentle sensation towards the original, that she had ever felt in the height of their acquaintance. Elizabeth's changing relationship with Darcy on first visit to Pemberley, Chapter 43.

Time, you may be sure, will make one or the other of us think differently; and, in the meanwhile, we need not talk much on the subject.

Oh! not handsome—not at all handsome. I thought him very plain at first, but I do not think him so plain now. One does not, you know, after a time.

The removal of one solicitude generally makes way for another.

I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

We shall be on good terms again; though we can never be what we once were to each other.

but time makes many changes.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.

les gens changent tellement qu'il ya toujours du nouveau à observer.

Well, we must live and learn.

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

Pero hay algo tan dulce en los prejuicios de una mente joven, que uno llega a sentir pena de ver cómo ceden y les abren paso a opiniones más comunes.

Ä°nsanlar, kendileri o kadar deÄŸiÅŸiyorlar ki içlerinde hep gözlemlenecek yeni bir ÅŸey oluyor.

Soon now, the faint tinkling of a broken filament will become another sound of another century.

The more primitive a language is the less it abstracts. [...] As the language with its people advances in civilization it classifies, i.e. abstracts and simplifies more and more; it sees common qualities and drops out those distinctions that do not subserve life. A similar process may be observed in the formation of what we call Parts of Speech.

Woolf criticism has not evolved smoothly, and it would be misleading to say that any one approach or interpretation has ever prevailed to the exclusion of others. There are continuities and discontinuities in trends and arguments, areas of common ground and major points of dispute.

it honestly didn't matter how we humans got to be the way we are, whether evolution or special creation was responsible. What mattered and mattered desperately was our future development. Were we going to go on destroying God's creation, fighting each other, hurting the other creatures of the His planet?

But let us not forget that human love and compassion are equally deeply rooted in our primate heritage, and in this sphere too our sensibilities are of a higher order of magnitude than those of chimpanzees.

We still have a long way to go. But we are moving in the right direction. If only we can overcome cruelty, to human and animal, with love and compassion we shall stand at the threshold of a new era in human moral and spiritual evolution—and realize, at last, our most unique quality: humanity.

At that moment there was no need of any scientific knowledge to understand his communication of reassurance. The soft pressure of his fingers spoke to me not through my intellect but through a more primitive emotional channel: the barrier of untold centuries which has grown up during the separate evolution of man and chimpanzee was, for those few seconds, broken down. It was a reward far beyond my greatest hopes.