Quotes About Evolution

The doctrine of evolution thus takes the place of the old religion in the modern man.320It is no science; it does not rest on undeniable facts; it has often in the past and in the present been contradicted by the facts. But that does not matter; miracle is the dearest child of faith.

328An optimism which is exclusively built on evolution is always transmuted into pessimism if one ponders a little more deeply.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

Herman Parish

Psychology has a long past, but only a short history.

In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each generations adds a new story to the old structure.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.

Gary's seemingly random, circuitous method actually has an underlying logic. But this test-and-learn approach flies in the face of the more traditional method, the

Self-creation is a lifelong journey. Only by our actions do we learn who we want to become, how best to travel, and what else will need to change to ease the way.

Rarely does "becoming an ex" happen as a result of one sudden decision. Instead, it happens over a period of time, one that often begins before we are fully aware of what is happening.

that none of their existing contacts could help them reinvent themselves. That the networks we rely on in a stable job are rarely the ones that lead us to something new and different.

pronto se hizo obvio un desequilibrio: lo que él me podía enseñar (naturaleza de los instrumentos, procedimientos, análisis de balances, etc.) era finito, mientras que mi dominio era inagotable. Las reglas y las def. son fijas; las condiciones y nuestras reacciones a ellas cambian a cada hora. Cierto, A me había proporcionado capital. Pero al cabo de un año más o menos, yo ya se lo había devuelto con creces y podría, en teoría, haberme establecido por mi cuenta.

evolución del mercado solo le llegaba en forma de «noticias», que es como la prensa se refiere a las decisiones tomadas por otra gente en un pasado reciente.

human prosperity never abides long in the same place

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

One cannot turn back the clock but one can move it forward. (Gendo Ikari, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ep. 22, 23:55)

That's why you must go. Why you must study many things. So you can tell them, tell the people who have forgotten everything, that for better or worse, humankind has created all of these things.

When she lets go of me I feel that I don't need to offer to become a different person, it has happened already.

It is solely by believing himself a creature but little lower than the cherubim that man has by interminable small degrees become, upon the whole, distinctly superior to the chimpanzee.

One thing we know for sure is that change is certain, progress is not.

There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.

Why does everything you know, and everything you've learned, confirm you in what you believed before? Whereas in my case, what I grew up with, and what I thought I believed, is chipped away a little and a little, a fragment then a piece and then a piece more. With every month that passes, the corners are knocked off the certainties of this world: and the next world too.

The world moves on so fast, and we lose all chance of being the women our mothers were; we lose all understanding of what shaped them.