Quotes About Evolution

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

All classicism presupposes a romanticism that went before.

Whether in science or the arts, if we look for the source of an achievement we can observe that what a man does either repeats or refutes what someone else has done — repeats it in other tones, refines or amplifies or simplifies it, loads or overloads it with meaning; or else rebuts, overturns, destroys, and denies it, but thereby assumes it and has invisibly used it. Opposites are born from opposites.

Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Verbeelding is een uitstekend vertrekpunt voor verandering.

Pour moi comme pour plusieurs de mes condisciples, la relation du maître et du disciple était chose morte ; ne serait-ce que parce que nous avions d'autres idées que nos maîtres, qui n'avaient que leurs conceptions scientifiques d'avant-guerre ; nous étions sûrs de notre supériorité sur la génération précédente (ce qui vaut mieux que de gémir sur la décadence et de maudire son époque [...]).

To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates that we have not evolved very much since the days our forebears lived in caves and saught to prove their superiority by adorning themselves with teeth and claws

I didn't wake up one morning and not be in the Replacements. We're all that forever, and I've just grown older. I mean, I haven't lost anything. I've gained a few things.

Although we usually fail to think of it in this way, the world around us today is just one of countless possible worlds. The millions of species of plants, animals, and insects we see around us are the expression of myriad interacting processes, including chance -- perhaps especially chance. At any point in its prehistory, a species might just easily have taken a different direction, given a slightly altered confluence of events, thus leaving today's world a slightly different place.

People narrow to their choices said the other woman. That's not the same as changing.

Things come that we never would have predicted for ourselves or even guessed at. And yet they change us for ever.

What are you thinking? Just of how much you've changed me. This is why there is poetry. For days like these.

Places change us, don't they? Sometimes more than we can even guess.

You're making something new. Don't forget that when it starts to hurt.

I'd managed to ignore how the ceremony would take away the boy I knew for ever and also the fierce warrior girl who had loved him. It already had. Those children were gone.

Each object was the same as it had been—but the air all around felt different. I was different.

A new thing is good, though it be a sore place.

It may be the luckiest and purest thing of all to see time sharpen to a single point. To feel the world rise up and shake you hard, insisting that you rise, too, somehow. Some way. That you come awake and stretch, painfully. That you change, completely and irrevocably—with whatever means are at your disposal—into the person you were always meant to be.

Somehow, without finding or fixing any words to it, the next part of our story had begun.

Every change is a form of liberation. My mother used to say a change is always good even if it's for the worse.

You are what you are, until you decide to be different.

Without innovation, tradition has no future.

An artist must either give up art or develop. There are, of course, two ways of giving up: stopping altogether or taking the familiar Hollywood course - making tricks out of what was once done for love.