Quotes About Evolution

History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.

History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.

History doesn't have a curfew.

All history must be mobilized if one would understand the present.

I like to be buttoned onto tradition. The thing is to improve it, twist it and mold it; to make something new of it; not to deny it. The riches of history can be plucked at any point.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Ideas shape the course of history.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Each day is a little bit of history

There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development

If we glance at the most important revolutions in history, we see at once that the greatest number of these originated in the periodical revolutions of the human mind.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all.

When I look at history, I am a pessimist...but when I look at prehistory, I am an optimist.

Good design should reflect a sense of human history-some aspect of where we've come from.

Grace can and does have a history.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false.

Who owns history? Everyone and no one--which is why the study of the past is a constantly evolving, never-ending journey of discovery.