Quotes About Evolution

In a generation everything can change.

The past changes a little every time we retell it.

England is always remaking herself, her cliffs eroding, her sandbanks drifting, springs bubbling up in dead ground. They regroup themselves while we sleep, the landscapes through which we move, and even the histories that trail us; the faces of the dead fade into other faces, as a spine of hills into the mist.

You cannot return to the moment you were in before.

History is not the past – it is the method we have evolved of organising our ignorance of the past

He can see that, in the years ahead, treason will take new and various forms. When the last treason act was made, no one could circulate their words in a printed book or bill, because printed books were not thought of. He feels a moment of jealousy toward the dead, to those who served kings in slower times than these; nowadays the products of some bought or poisoned brain can be disseminated through Europe in a month.

History is always changing behind us, and the past changes a little every time we retell it.

istoria nu este trecutul, ci ceea ce r?mâne în ciur dup? ce veacurile au trecut prin el

For what's the point of breeding children, if each generation does not improve on what went before?

Dynamism is a function of change.

I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.

Who does not grow, declines.

True nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

History is nothing but a problem of mechanics applied to psychology.

But I do not think the flying machine will ever be used for ordinary traffic and for what may be called "popular" purposes. People who write about the conditions under which the business and pleasure of the world will be carried on in another hundred years generally make flying machines take the place of railways and steamers, but that such will ever be the case I very much doubt.

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes

Les erreurs ne sont pas des entraves à la progression, mais les fondements même de ce que nous sommes Mavis

This story is the tale of me starting to walk. Not in the physical sense… but in an adolescence to adulthood sort of way…

That is life's talent. To accept new things.

How would he react to a Japan that is so radically different, on the surface at least, from what it was in 1944?

evolutionary terms, failure is its prerequisite, frustration its generator.

And somewhere inside me I felt an awful feeling that something in my life was coming quietly to an end.

ty var människas handstil förändras oavbrutet, en liten smula vart år, kanske omärkligt för henne själv, men lika oundvikligt och säkert som ansiktet, hållningen, rörelserna, själen.

Desire is an odd thing. As soon as it's sated, it transmutes. If we receive golden thread, we desire the golden needle.