Quotes About Evolution

I found the city built of brick and left it built of marble,' this

Very few towns or cities are founded at a stroke, by a single individual. They are usually the product of gradual changes in population, in patterns of settlement, social organisation and sense of identity. Most 'foundations' are retrospective constructions, projecting back into the distant past a microcosm, or imagined primitive version, of the later city.

In reality, the whole process must have been more gradual than that story suggests, and messier. The 'Republic' was born slowly, over a period of decades, if not centuries. It was reinvented many times over.

The Latin word for 'rams', rostra, became the name of the platform and gave modern English its word 'rostrum'.

There is nothing more important than claiming our power at this point in time because it will determine the future direction of our planet and our evolution.

The family is changing not disappearing. We have to broaden our understanding of it, look for the new metaphors.

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time.

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

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees - upon being drafted by the Dallas Mavericks

Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick.

Someday, after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energy of love; and for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

The spiritual being wants to be Destiny and the Destiny wants to become Evolution, and the Evolution wants to become Fulfillment, the Fulfillment wants to become Truth and, oh my, Truth wants to be a part of Knowledge, when it is precisely non-Knowledge.

Through suicide, Man will completely triumph over Death, over everything that alienates him from himself and that once used Death as pretence, because nothing was more sublime and wrong in the history of the social evolution of the human being than Death, which was and still is now, subconsciously the Self Absolute of the Man! And yet, we must live!

A in a mans life is a state of mind, it keeps changing.

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

In 20 or 30 years, you'll be able to hold in your hand as much computing knowledge as exists now in the whole city, or even the whole world.

If a relationship is to evolve, it must go through a series of endings.

Every love's the love before in a duller dress

Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution

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

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.

The most beautiful discovery true friends make is that they can grow separately without growing apart.

The most successful marriages, gay or straight, even if they begin in romantic love, often become friendships. It's the ones that become the friendships that last.

Husband and wife come to look alike at last