Quotes About Evolution

There was an old abbot in one temple and he said something of which I think often and it was this, that when men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Man, who wert once a despot and a slave, A dupe and a deceiver! a decay, A traveller from the cradle to the grave Through the dim night of this immortal day.

The opinions of men who think are always growing and changing, like living children.

The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.

From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.

Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.

Helmut Lang is an amazing man - always striving, always moving forward.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

In the early 2000s, I was going through a lot. I didn't have my head screwed on right. Where I was at as a man, I was still growing up.

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

An individual man is a fruit which it cost all the foregoing ages to form and ripen. He is strong, not to do, but to live; not in his arms, but in his heart; not as an agent, but as a fact.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

Every man is a new method.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.

By the data to date, there is only one animal in the Galaxy dangerous to man -- man himself. So he must supply his own indispensable competition. He has no enemy to help him.

Civilization has gotten further and further from the so-called 'natural' man, who uses all his faculties: perception, invention, improvisation.

Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?

We can keep whatever we like about manhood but adjust the parts of the definition that are keeping men back.

Whatever is is a movement; man is a movement-to something other than man.

The seed must move to the soil; the tree must turn to the sun. The river must leave its source to reach the sea. And man must forget man, the maker, in order to make the world.

If the monkeys had been concerned only with monkey Beings they would never have become men.

We must leave these beginnings, beings, believings- man, what are you growing?

In terms of evolutionary history, it was only yesterday that men learned to walk around on two legs and get in trouble thinking complicated thoughts. So don't worry, you'll burn out.