Quotes About Evolution

Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he has what no other animal possesses: a jigsaw of faculties, which alone, over three thousand million years of life, made him creative. Every animal leaves traces of what he was. Man alone leaves traces of what he created.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place of the school books we shall not exist.

we must always remember that the real content of evolution (biological as well as cultural) is the elaboration of new behaviour.

what we call cultural evolution is essentially a constant growing and widening of the human imagination.

In self-defence, you know, all life eventually accommodates itself to its environment, and human life is no exception.

Les vieilles habitudes sont comme une rigole creusée par l'eau, et qui, ensuite, en dirige le cours; et l'on répète les mêmes erreurs.

Life is like that. Destruction precedes emergence of something better. Destruction is not bad. It only feels that way.

Love changes and changes. Then it changes again. . .

Life...moves us through all the time changes. All kinds of changes. And we're made so that we roll and move with it. Sometimes somebody gets stuck in the present and the rolling stops—but the changing doesn't.

Two steps to the left or right or back or front and you're standing outside your life.

I love the physical act of writing as well as how I grow with each situation I put on the page.

They're all inside of us,...past people and present people. And probably even the people we'll become.

I think of it..." Jeremiah said slowly. "Like weather or something. You got your rain, your snow, your sunshine. Always changing but still constant, you know?"... "So it's not always raining, is it? But when it's not raining, we know the rain isn't gone forever.

Each door, each friend, each step—bringing me closer to who I was becoming.

Great cultural changes begin in affectation and end in routine

It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

The feeble clavichord did not carry far; the harpsichord was only a little stronger; but Cristofori in Italy was working at these defects; he built a machine he called clavicembalo piano e forte — a keyboard instrument to play "soft and loud." Contrary to all experience, we now call it simply "a soft.

The human being is changing slowly under the pressure of the economic milieu; he is in process of becoming the uncomplicated being the liberal economist constructed.

La technique se développe de façon indépendante, en dehors de tout contrôle humain.

We are not the same persons this year as last nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

A curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it.