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Quotes About Evolution

History is an omlette. THe eggs are already broken.
~ Orson Scott Card
History is an accumulation of error.
~ Norman Cousins
To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.
~ Han Suyin
History is where tensions were.
~ Howard Nemerov
History does include aspects of directionality, and the present range of causes and phenomena does not exhaust the realm of past possibilities.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Humankind's constant effort to fix its shortcomings is what drives human history.
~ Joel Garreau
We are at an inflection point in history.
~ Joel Garreau
I'm not sure history has ended.
~ John Bolton
Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
History is a bucket of ashes.
~ Samuel Butler
Philosophy is tested and characterised by the way in which it appropriates its history.
~ Karl Jaspers
History tends to change people who think they're changing it.
~ Terry Pratchett
Economics, we learn in the history of thought, only became a science by escaping from the casuistry and moralizing of medieval thought.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
~ Larry Wall
Out of Coltrane's whole history, there are things which I think are great from all the periods.
~ Lee Konitz
History is the seed bed of the future.
~ Leo Booth
History is the product of vast, amorphous and indecipherable social movements.
~ Leo Tolstoy
History's a resource.
~ Laura Linney
I think if anyone looks at the history of So Solid, you'll see that we've never stuck to one sound. We've always created from other genres, from R&B, hip-hop, bashment, jungle.
~ Lisa Maffia
As we know from the study of history, no new system can impose itself upon a previous one without incorporating many of the elements to be found in the latter.
~ Margaret Atwood
Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.
~ Mark McKinnon
History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.
~ Mark Twain
each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature.
~ May Sarton