Quotes About Evolution

Out in the sun, some painters are lined up. The first is copying nature, the second is copying the first, the third is copying the second... You see the sequence.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

we still have the Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building and the Woolworth Building, but it just seems like part of the nature of New York, that it's always shifting.

To think, we have the garment industry instead of nature to thank for the zipper concept when it would have come in so handy for childbirth.

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

Certain people always say we should go back to nature.I notice they never say we should go forward to nature. It seemstometheyare more concerned that we should go back, than about nature.

We evolved as creatures knitted into the fabric of nature, and without its intimate truths, we can find ourselves unraveling.

The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.

Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.

I believe that man is the product of natural evolution that is born from the conflict of being a prisoner and separated from nature, and from the need to find unity and harmony with it.

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

The protean nature of the computer is such that it can act like a machine or like a language to be shaped and exploited.

Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

No creature can attain a higher grade of nature without ceasing to exist.

I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it.

All change is a miracle to contemplate, but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.

Nature does not demand that we be perfect. It requires only that we grow.

Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.

Nature does not care what we call it, she just keeps on doing it.