Quotes About Evolution

Of all the material objects we know, quasars are closest to lucretius's javelin. Quasars are galaxies in early stage of evolution. The light that tells us about them today has traveled for billions of years. They move away from us at a speed close to that of light; in that way they mirror the expansion of the universe.

The truth changes all the time.

it is a vice to spend years and centuries saying of progress, 'I should like it, but I do not want it.

An aeroplane booms overhead. We follow its evolutions with our faces skyward, our necks twisted, our eyes watering at the piercing brightness of the sky. Lamuse declares to me, when we have brought our gaze back to earth, "Those machines 'll never become practical, never." "How can you say that? Look at the progress they've made already, and the speed of it." "Yes, but they'll stop there. They'll never do any better, never.

All the living hold together, and all yield to the same tremendous push. The animal takes its stand on the plant, man bestrides animality, and the whole of humanity, in space and in time, is one immense army galloping beside and before and behind each of us in an overwhelming charge able to beat down every resistance and clear the most formidable obstacles, perhaps even death.

L'élan vital [the vital spirit].

L'humanité gémit, à demi écrasée sous le poids des progrès qu'elle a faits. Elle ne sait pas assez que son avenir dépend d'elle.

Social thought is unable not to keep its original structure.

Darwin's theory of evolution pointed to the conclusion that flux (or becoming), not being, is the essence of reality. Though

Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.

For the world is movement, and you cannot be stationary in your attitude toward something that is moving.

There's no animal that sleep-deprives itself like the human.

Words and phrases grew only slowly

All appears to change when we change.

Nothing disappears completely ... In space, what came earlier continues to underpin what follows ... Pre-existing space underpins not only durable spatial arrangements, but also representational spaces and their attendant imagery and mythic narratives.

Self-interest is but the survival of the animal in us. Humanity only begins for man with self-surrender.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

I hold that man is in the right who is most closely in league with the future.

Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance came, were marked by good qualities, or they could never have risen to a higher stage.

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity.

The progress of Evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence enough to upset Darwin.

Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.

I used to be svelte but with age I have svelled.

La via che percorriamo nel tempo è cosparsa dei frammenti di tutto ciò che cominciavamo ad essere, di tutto ciò che avremmo potuto diventare.