Quotes About Evolution

This was Alec Yarr, who, many years ago, used to pilot a Haddon Avenue trolley from Camden to Haddonfield. Now there are no cars. Buses have answered demands for speed, at the cost of fuming the air and filling it with squeals and droning sounds.

He is not Old Brown any longer; he is an angel of light.

I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other....

Genetic variability evolves over many millennia, yet we know that the rates of anxiety disorders have skyrocketed in just the last century, not to mention the last decade. I believe this has to do partly with changes in lifestyle, diet, sleep and work patterns, and especially our relationship with stress. Our world is unquestionably complex

No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.

Today the earth speaks with resonance and clearness and every ear in every civilized country of the world is attuned to its wonderful message of the creative evolution of man, except the ear of William Jennings Bryan; he alone remains stone-deaf, he alone by his own resounding voice drowns the eternal speech of nature.

Quite recently the human descent theory has been stigmatized as the 'gorilla theory of human ancestry.' All this despite the fact that Darwin himself, in the days when not a single bit of evidence regarding the fossil ancestors of man was recognized, distinctly stated that none of the known anthropoid apes, much less any of the known monkeys, should be considered in any way as ancestral to the human stock.

We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we make today.

History is more or less bunk.

I see no advantage in these new clocks. They run no faster than the ones made 100 years ago.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necesary to a worthwhile achievement".

To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.

Life, as I see it, is not a location, but a journey. Even the man who most feels himself "settled" is not settled—he is probably sagging back. Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

Kdybych poslouchal své zákazníky, býval bych jim dal jen rychlejšího kon?.

If you do what you always did, you get what you always gotten

Everything can always be done better than it is being done.

Every failure is an opportunity to begin again with more information.

Everything is in flux, and was meant to be. Life flows. We may live at the same number of the street, but it is never the same man who lives there.

I I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses

The present order often clumsy often stupid has this advantage over any other. It works. Doubtless it will merge by degrees into another order and it will also work. But not so much as to what it is, but as into what men will bring into it.

Progress through cautious, well founded experiments.

Every advance begins in a small way and with the individual.

A man cannot expect to progress without thinking.