Quotes About Evolution

Your days are like pages, the chapters unread. You have to keep turning your book has no end.

You don't seem like the same man." "I'm not. Maybe nobody is, for long.

Things do not change with a change of scene.

For man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Pre-Cambrian Memory.

Samuel smiled at him. "They say man lived in trees one time. Somebody had to get dissatisfied with a high limb or your feet would not be touching flat ground now.

Tom Wolfe was right," he reflected. "You can't go home again because home has ceased to exist except in the mothballs of memory.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Cand cauti inapoi cu atentie, poti gasi intotdeauna momentul de inceput al unei noi epoci, dupa care totul merge de la sine, se inlantuie.

It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.

It is true that we are weak and sick and quarrelsome, but if that is all we ever were, we would, millenniums ago, have disappeared from the face of the earth. A few remnants of fossilized jawbone, some broken teeth in strata of limestone, would be the only mark man would have left of his existence in the world.

No, it ain't, Ma smiled. It ain't, Pa. An' that's one more thing a woman knows. I noticed that. Man, he lives in jerks -- baby born an' a man dies, an' that's a jerk -- gets a farm an' loses his farm, an' that's a jerk. Woman, it's all one flow, like a stream, little eddies, little waterfalls, but the river, it goes right on. Woman looks at it like that. We ain't gonna die out. People is goin' on -- changin' a little, maybe, but goin' right on.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. "Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater.

Nothing stops, Mac. If you were able to put an idea into effect tomorrow, it would start changing right away.

Only through imitation do we develop toward originality.

So we go into this happy new year, knowing that our species has learned nothing, can, as a race, learn nothing

wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Then, with time, the squatters were no longer squatters, but owners;

Tell 'em ya dong's growed sence you los' your eye.

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. As a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cats, dogs, butterflies and people.

Woman can change better'n man,'' ''Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.

Ayn Rand brings the best and the worst animal instinct out in humans. Well, excuse me, I aspire to be further evolved ethically than that. I really believe that Ayn Rand is the Marilyn Monroe of philosophy--all seduction, little substance.