Quotes About Evolution

Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.

No one builds a legacy by standing still.

Self study leads to improvisation and improvisation leads to evolution.

There has to be uncomfortable element in the discourse of anything to change.

We are all one, because we're all part of the same evolutionary story.

We learn a little more about the world each day; this shapes our ideals and, more often than not, ensures these ideals are constantly changing.

Ev'rythin's up to date in Kansas City.They've gone about as fur as they c'n go!

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

I may have said the same thing before...but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different.

Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes.

Science is the record of dead religions.

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

There are periods in history when change is necessary, and other periods when it is better to keep everything for the time as it is. The art of life is to be in the rhythm of your age.

Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.

What the myth of Götterdämmerung signified of old, the irreligious form of it, the theory of Entropy, signifies to-day—world's end as completion of an inwardly necessary evolution.

Who amongst them realizes that between the Differential Calculus and the dynastic principle of politics in the age of Louis XIV, between the Classical city-state and the Euclidean geometry, between the space perspective of Western oil painting and the conquest of space by railroad, telephone and long range weapon, between contrapuntal music and credit economics, there are deep uniformities?

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

When a new thing or a new idea comes into the consciousness of the community, it is described, not by a new word, but by the name of the pre-existing object which most closely resembles it.

As we see it, the whole outlook brought about by the scientific revolution should have been--must be--a phase, only, of the evolution of consciousness. An absolutely indispensable phase, but a passing one. What is riveting it on to us and preventing us from superseding it, because it prevents us from even imaging any other kind of consciousness, is precisely this error of projecting it back into the past.