Quotes About Evolution

The whole concert of animate nature arose entirely from annoying noises.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.

Nature never gives everything at once.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

The past assumes the nature of the present.

The good news may be that Nature is phasing out the white man, but the bad news is that's who She thinks we all are.

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

Human nature, if it changes at all, changes not much faster than the geological face of the earth.

Human nature, as manifested in tribalism and nationalism, provides the momentum of the machinery of human evolution.

Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

Change is the hallmark of nature. Nothing remains the same.

The whole cable-TV original programming just changed the nature of television.

Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy.

I think human consciousness is a misstep in evolution. We became too self-aware, nature created an aspect of nature separate from itself. We are creatures that should not exist by natural law.

The changing nature of money is only one facet of the financial services revolution.

Nature is actually the goal at the end of history.

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

In the nature of things, I must soon lose sight of this sense of constant metamorphosis whose limits bound our human life.

You can't change laws without first changing human nature.' -Nurse Greta You can't change human nature without first changing the law.' -Nurse Yvonne

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome.