Quotes About Evolution

It comes to him: growth is betrayal. There is no other route. There is no arriving somewhere without leaving somewhere.

Growth is betrayal.

But cities aren't like people; they live on and on, even though their reason for being where they are has gone downriver and out to sea.

We shed skins in life, to keep living.

The brontosaurus had thirty-ton body and a two-ounce brain. The anatosaurus had two thousand teeth. Triceratops had a helmet of filled bone seven feet long. Tyrannosaurus rex had tiny arms and teeth like six-inch razors and it was elected President. It ate everything—dead meat, living meat, old bones—

Sad business, being a Negro man, always underpaid, their eyes don't look like our eyes, bloodshot, brown, liquid in them about to quiver out. Read somewhere some anthropologist thinks Negroes instead of being more primitive are the latest thing to evolve, the newest man.

Keep up with what's causing chaos in your own field.

Although there is no progress without change, not all change is progress.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

Failure is not Fatal, but Failure to CHANGE can be.

The problem with new is you don't have time for the old ones.

If I am through learning, I am through.

A leader who is through learning is through.

Failure isn't fatal, but failure to change might be

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.

They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

I just keep the mistakes and let them be wrong, because it's often the mistakes that eventually lead to something right...

However, perhaps there is a different possibility. It could be that evolution has endowed the brain with self-stabilizing mechanisms so that it always safely enters a good state if we leave it in its default mode—if we just decouple it from the disturbing outer world and let it run by itself. Maybe it's done that way. That would be even better.

There is no successful escaping from yourself in the long run, only transformation

health is a dynamical process. It is not a fixed state that you "get" and then hold on to.

When a caterpillar looks in the mirror, he sees a butterfly.

Cast changes are a hard thing. For two years, we had this little family. We weren't together when these changes were decided upon. It all happened during our hiatus.