Quotes About Evolution

Progress ages badly. Each generation brings a new model of progressivism which discards with contempt the previous model. Nothing is more grotesque than yesterday's progressive.

The modern world seems invincible. Like the extinct dinosaurs.

What is called progress are preparations for a catastrophe.

By means of the notion of "cultural evolution," the democratic anthropologist tries to avoid questions of biology.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of the industrial society.

Cambiano meno gli uomini le idee che le idee i loro travestimenti. Nel corso dei secoli dialogano le stesse voci.

Man emerges from the beast when he orders his instincts hierarchically.

History is less the evolution of humanity than the unfolding of facets of human nature.

The horror of progress can only be measured by someone who has known a landscape before and after progress has transformed it.

Progress is the offspring of knowledge of nature. Faith in progress is the offspring of ignorance of history.

El progresista sueña en la estabulación científica de la humanidad.

Humanity will one day solemnly recall the events that initiated the dismantlement of industrial society.

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road "change." The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Everything that interrupts a tradition obliges us to start over. And every origin is bloody .

Die Aristokraten sind die normalen; die Demokraten die Fehlgeburten der Geschichte.

Llámanse progresos los preparativos de las catástrofes.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.

Pat was a complicated and occasionally contradictory man, which is to say he was human, he was flawed, and he was still in the act of self-discovery, of becoming.

Change brings opportunity.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.