Quotes About Evolution

History, call it 15,000 or 25,000 years of duration, is the story of an animal, some kind of complex animal, becoming conscious.

The past could be jettisoned . . . but seeds got carried.

The history of art is the history of revivals.

Sooner or later we learn to throw the past away, history will teach us nothing.

History consists of a series of accumulated imaginative inventions.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

The use of thermodynamics in biology has a long history rich in confusion.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

The laws of biology are the fundamental lessons of history.

The whole past is the procession of the present.

When the history of civilization is written, it will be a biological history and Margaret Sanger will be its heroine.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

In the history of the concept of number has been adjective (three cows, three monads) and noun (three, pure and simple), and now ... number seems to be more like a verb (to triple).

I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.

Under ordinary circumstances, bad art naturally gets sorted out and disappears. That is how history works when it is left alone to do its job.

The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

Every new generation must rewrite history in its own way.

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable.

There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history.

We are not just studying human history, we are shaping it.