Quotes About Evolution

There is no nature in an instant.

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

... a result once generally accepted by mathematicians is seldom retracted, and then only with great pangs. The Nature of Mathematics

Design in nature is but a concatenation of accidents, culled by natural selection until the result is so beautiful or effective as to seem a miracle of purpose.

If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.

Man in a word has no nature; what he has... is history.

From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

Human social institutions can effect the course of human evolution. Just as climate, food supply, predators, and other natural forces of selection have molded our nature, so too can our culture.

deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.

Nature does not make leaps.

Nature doesn't move in a straight line, and as part of nature, neither do we.

Change is the very nature of nature.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there.

Television has changed. The very nature of it is not even television anymore.

According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress.

The true nature of soul is right knowledge, right faith and right conduct. The soul, so long as it is subject to transmigration, is undergoing evolution and involution.

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

It is the nature of a person as he/she grows older to protest against change, particularly changes for the better.

What I've observed, and I think it's fair to give credit to the psychedelic experience for this, what I've observed is that nature builds on previously established levels of complexity.

No creature on Earth ever has organized themselves in ways that we have, with the capacity to alter the nature of nature the way we have.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

Nothing is of a permanent nature.

I am definitely a Type-A, tidy, everything-has-a-place kind of person, so initially encouraging a mess was against my nature. But once you realize all the benefits, it's pretty simple to let that go.