Quotes About Evolution

It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory.

At the successive sessions, people may tear up what they did in the previous session and make a fresh start with clearer ideas. This is a sign of advancement.

Man is a history-making creature who can neither repeat his past nor leave it behind.

Soft as the earth is mankind and both need to be altered.

I am the son of the first fish who climbed ashore but the news has not yet reached my bowels.

Love is a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species.

The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.

Numbers are a key to the ancient views of cosmogony—in its broad sense, spiritually as well as physically considered and to the evolution of the present human race; all systems of religious mysticism are based upon numerals.

tradition gives the one thing many shapes.

O bid me mount and sail up there Amid the cloudy wrack, For Peg and Meg and Paris' love That had so straight a back, Are gone away, and some that stay Have changed their silk for sack.

by our lofty standards animals are poor liars.

The most important thing to remember is this: to be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become.

Moreover, if great men are the only hope of the Evolutionary Process, they are morally bound to rule over the masses for their own good -- we are all here on earth to help others: what on earth the others are here for, I don't know -- and the masses have no right whatsoever to resist them.

The words of a dead man Are modified in the guts of the living.

Human "nature" is a nature continually in quest of itself, obliged at every moment to transcend what it was a moment before.

Organic growth is a cyclical process; it is just as true to say that the oak is a potential acorn as it is to say the acorn is a potential oak. But the process of writing a poem, of making any art object, is not cyclical but a motion in one direction toward a definite end.

It is time for the destruction of error.

To forget the past so easily seems scarcely loyal to oneself. I am so selfishly absorbed in my present self that I have grown not to care a damn about that ever increasing collection of past selves- those dear, dead gentlemen who one after the other have tenanted the temple of this flesh and handed on the torch of my life and personal identity before creeping away silently and modestly to rest.

As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

Me gusta pensar que en otro tiempo fui un magnífico ejemplar peludo que vivía en los árboles y que mi cuerpo procede, a lo largo de un tiempo geológico, de la medusa, los gusanos y anfioxos, peces, dinosaurios y monos. ¿Quién querría cambiar eso por la pálida pareja del Jardín del Edén?

Certain words now in our knowledge we will not use again, and we will never forget them. We need them. Like the back of the picture.

I needed my mistakes in their order to get me here

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.