Quotes About Evolution

The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change.

Ultimately what rules in a discipline today is the social pressure of the best professional opinion, and that changes.

What takes over when knowledge disappears is tradition.

Evolution itself is an "order" that requires explanation if any order does, and it presupposes, as we have just seen, a vast scale of order and existence within which alone it can occur. Whether evolution occurs with regard to plant and animal species (which was Darwin's concern), that has no serious implications at all, taken by itself, for the existence of God.

Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.

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Change only comes through breakdown or revolution.

It is one of the defects of an age with no true sense of its past to suppose that what is now is what has always been, and that anything else is either novel or wrong or both.

our minds have come down to us through history

A human figure approaching, filling itself in slowly, putting on age and sex and race, like items of clothing

shortly after that, their brains began to grow! The human

the strange ideas we derive today will one day be our celebrated truths

History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.

Every generation's breakthroughs are proven false by the next generation's Technology

If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.

Man's morality was not advancing as fast as man's science. Mankind was not spiritually evolved enough for the powers he possessed. We have never created a weapon we have not used!

Human beings are evolving into something different," he declared. "We are becoming a hybrid species—a fusion of biology and technology.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

In Darwinian terms, a religion that ignores scientific facts and refuses to change its beliefs is like a fish stranded in a slowly drying pond and refusing to flip to deeper water because it doesn't want to believe its world has changed.

uncertainty is always a precursor to sweeping change; transformation is always preceded by upheaval and fear.

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

Sometimes you need to go up...to go down.

Human intellect has always evolved by rejecting outdated information in favor of new truths.

If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.