Quotes About Evolution

I feel reinvigorated, having fresh energy and fresh ideas, and merging that with the history I have.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

History does not merely touch on language, but takes place in it.

The history of art is a sequence of successful transgressions.

We are at a punctuation point in human history where the Industrial Age and institutions have finally come to their logical conclusion. They have essentially run out of gas.

The United States may have retained more of the intellectual imprint of the British 18th century than Britain itself.

All you have learned from history is old ways of making mistakes. There is nothing that history can tell you about what we must do tomorrow. Only what we must not do.

The history of all big jazz bands shows was, first they played for dancing, and then they played for singing.

Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic.

The planet will not survive another hundred years of the same state of consciousness that produced the external effects of recent history.

It's been argued that of all the animals humans have domesticated, the horse is the most important to our history. For thousands of years, horses were our most reliable mode of transportation.

A railroad station? That was sort of a primitive airport, only you didn't have to take a cab 20 miles out of town to reach it.

History doesn't pass the dishes again.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

History does not unfold: it piles up.

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.

People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.

History doesn't proceed in incremental little notches.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed.

We tap into a lot of things from musical history when making the songs.