Quotes About Evolution

Both Hegel and Darwin can be mis-used to support a belief in the "survival of the fittest".

Men are men and women are women. We've tried for tens of thousands of years to lay down hard and fast lines for the sexes to walk upon, and we've failed miserably.

Life continues, and we all of us keep changing and building, toward what we cannot know.

Marriage is like a toothbrush. It starts out smooth and gets kind of prickly towards the end.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

The old customs are dead, and we keep trying on new ones, like badly fitting clothes.

The facts appear to be mutating every forty minutes. Like bacteria.

Some people grow into their dreams, instead of out of them.

Growing up, I have discovered over time, is rather like housework: never finished.

Even though it is not pictured in the Death card, our snake-wrapped Orphic egg—the latent seed of life that we first saw in the Magus card, whose elements were married in the Lovers, and which then was fertilized by the Hermit—is now entering the last stage of development before hatching into new life.

Man is man because he chanced to develop intelligence instead of instinct; otherwise he would to this day have remained among the anthropoid apes. He has turned away from nature, become unnatural, as it were, disliked the earth upon which he found himself, and changed the face of it somewhat to his liking.

Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change To something new, to something strange; Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, To-morrow be to-day.

Maravilla ser solía, pero ya lástima doy; que de extremo a extremo voy y desde ser a no ser, pues sol me llamaba ayer y hoy sombra mía aun no soy.

People used to believe their life--or at least their life as a performer--was over at 28 or some ungodly age! God, when I think of myself back then, I had no idea who I was. I think I'm barely getting that under control now.

Obviously no parent does everything right. It's this weird thing that happens where you are striving to be as good as you can be so that they turn out well. And that requires that you be a really great, evolved, aware person in every moment. Which is pretty awesome. But it's also putting tremendous pressure on yourself--which is why women feel so guilty!

Every step we take on earth brings us to a new world.

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is truth to be got at?

Opinions are made to be changed - or how is the truth to be got at.

No one person invented Mulberry. The knowledge that we had to have this floating harbor slowly grew.

Die Bedürfnisse der menschlichen Ernährung sind genauso von der Umgebung bestimmt worden wie die von Löwen, exotischen Affen und Tropenfischen. Unsere Gattung ist genetisch gut an die Nahrungsmittel und Nahrungssorten angepasst, die wir in unserer ursprünglichen und natürlichen ökologischen Nische üblicherweise vorgefunden haben.

We are all potential fossils still carrying within our bodies the crudities of former existences, the marks of a world in which living creatures flow with little more consistency than clouds from age to age.