Quotes About Evolution

Although human mobility has increased, human assumptions have not kept pace. Human knowledge may have increased but human assumptions have remained fairly constant.

No ripe grape becomes unripe again, and human evolution cannot be stopped.

La uva madura no puede volver a la inmadurez, y la evolución humana no puede detenerse.

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colourful.

To continue in one path is to go backward.

Now is a time for change, a time to become the greatest version of yourself. And a time to to make your grandest vision of the world .

If a change in our lives require individually or socially painful sacrifices, it will be difficult to put into effect no matter how necessary that change might be. However, if we start down the road of transformation with simple, enjoyable, and tangible changes, we will soon be prepared to tackle larger issues.

There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

We need to change our way of seeing the world and relating to it, not because our current way is intrinsically bad or "evil," but because we have become too powerful to continue to live as we have been living. Whether we like it or not, collectively we have become the most powerful factor in determining not only the future of human society, but also the direction of the entire planet with all its life-forms.

Don't be confined by the self you have experienced, the self you know. Going beyond what you know and what you have experienced, challenge your brain with new questions and give it new tasks—then it will begin to manifest infinite creativity.

The universe likes change. All that appears solid and substantial is built on the shifting sands of ceaseless transformation on the quantum level. Ironically, that's the one steady factor about the universe - it is always changing, which means our efforts to change are supported by the very nature of Life.

We evolved haphazardly within a random universe; no purpose underpins us, no God watches over us, and no assured glorious future awaits us. We are saddled with a dualistic consciousness that weighs us down and plays tricks on us. We have built and seem unable to dismantle a dehumanizing and destructive civilization and mindset that perpetuates deceit and greed. We can make ourselves as comfortable as possible, as doctors tell their terminally ill patients, but we are sadly incurable.

There is a powerful human compulsion to leave things tied up in neat little bundles. But every journey except your last has an open end. And any journey of value is above all a chapter in a personal odyssey. Its end is not so much a goal attained as another point in a continuing process. And the important thing at the end of a journey--or of a book--is to keep moving forward, refreshed, with as little pause as possible.

Human intelligence is a function of man's evolutionary urge; the scientist and the philosopher hunger for truth because they are tired of being merely human.

Spanish physicist Beatriz Gato-Rivera has questioned whether we could be immersed in a larger civilization without being aware of it. She notes that "typical civilizations of typical galaxies" would likely be hundreds of thousands, or even millions of years more evolved than our own.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

Acceptance is always progression.

As soon as we realise our primitivity, the world can progress to true greatness.

Creation is the only progression there is.

First, you must understand you are nothing. And from there, you can become something.

Life is a fast-moving train; we're just passengers aboard changing carriages and waiting for our unique time to disembark.

Nothing is a constant in our lives; not money, ambitions, people, or anything else, except you; yourself, alone.

Once my mission is completed, I will be ready to leave this existence and become whatever I am destined to transcend as.

Our only future is the world beyond.