Quotes About Evolution

A large brain-to-body size ratio is often considered a hallmark of intelligence, although it's not the only factor. But it is something we humans celebrate in ourselves and regard as key to the flowering of human intelligence. So it's easy to imagine scientists' eyebrows arching in surprise when dolphins—and not chimpanzees—were discovered in the 1950s and 1960s to have a brain nearly as large as our own on this scale.

On or about December, 1910, human character changed. I am not saying that one went out, as one might into a garden, and there saw that a rose had flowered, or that a hen had laid an egg. The change was not sudden and definite like that.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

La vie, c'est le mouvement, t'as pas fini de quitter des gens

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

The seed is put in the ground, and earth and air and water are placed around it. Does the seed become the earth; or the air, or the water? No. It becomes a plant, it develops after the law of its own growth, assimilates the air, the earth, and the water, converts them into plant substance, and grows into a plant.

The exchange will always deepen, even if the friendship does not.

There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.

Human knowledge is not (or does not follow) a straight line, but a curve, which endlessly approximates a series of circles, a spiral. Any fragment, segment, section of this curve can be transformed (transformed one-sidedly) into an independent, complete, straight line, which then (if one does not see the wood for the trees) leads into the quagmire, into clerical obscurantism (where it is anchored by the class interests of the ruling classes).

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

These last eight years…

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees it requires the hand of time.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors.

Nature is earlier than man, but man is earlier than natural science.

We never truly forget the things that have passed out of our lives. We merely move further away from them in time, until they become either less important than they actually were or more profound than we might have ever imagined. Had

We that have done and thought, That have thought and done, Must ramble, and thin out Like milk spilt on a stone.

Yet did you know that every dog alive today has a little wolf DNA? Not just huskies, who often look like wolves, but pugs, corgis, poodles? Chuhuahuas - they sometimes act like they still are wolves.

Empezaba a pensar que cada vez que me parecía que entendía lo que era la vida, esta cambiaba.

If you always do what you have always done, you will always be where you are right now" ~W. Clement Stone

Anyone who says the American Constitution is obsolete just because social and economic conditions have changed does not understand the real genius of the Constitution. It was designed to control something which has not changed and will not change—namely, human nature.

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.