Quotes About Evolution

I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age.

When I look at interviews from when I was that age, I come off different than how I am because I've matured - and I've matured, become a man in front of the public eye.

It is the age that forms the man, not the man that forms the age.

In the highest antiquity, the people did not know that there were rulers. In the next age they loved them and praised them. In the next they feared them; in the next they despised them.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.

But every age deserves its fashion and its forms, and no one can control what survives.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.

The age of recalcitrance is over. The best solution is no longer just to regurgitate a 19th-century design.

The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.

The 90's are the 60's standing on their head.

On the day that we do discover that we are not alone, our society may begin to evolve and transform in some incredible and wondrous new ways.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

Be open to the amazing changes which are occurring in the field that interest you.

It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.

But I had read all of [the Bible] by then, and I could see that it changed. And if it changed, how could all of it be true?

Of course, what I wasn't telling myself, and maybe was trying not to know (though I did know), was that at Squire's Landing, and Goforth too, things were already changed. The things I was remembering were gone from everywhere except my mind.

And when we finally gathered ourselves together again among the ruins, we were changed.