Quotes About Evolution

he mused, thinking of his son as the spokesman of the new generation which had swept away all the old landmarks, and with them the sign-posts and the danger-signal.

After all, there was good in the old ways.

Her incapacity to recognise change made her children conceal their views from her as Archer concealed his;

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

A state without the means of some change, is without the means of its own conservation.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Conservatives, he said, "are taught to believe that change means destruction. They are wrong.… Life means change; where there is no change, death comes.

he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.

Me temo, cariño —me dijo ella—, que ya no tienes edad para ser un maricón de los de antes.

Careers are funny things. They begin mysteriously and, just as mysteriously, they can end.

History properly so-called can be written only by those who find and accept a sense of direction in history itself. The belief that we have come from somewhere is closely linked with the belief that we are going somewhere.

That was my lesson. I needed to act differently.

The American Psychiatric Association classified homosexuality as a mental illness until 1973 and remnants of that categorization remain in the contemporary diagnosis of 'gender identity disorder', particularly when applied to children.

Today's common sense had a habit of turning into tomorrow's utter nonsense.

Supongo que la gente no ha parado de alterar las normas desde que los griegos inventaron la democracia o, incluso, desde que el hombre inventó la rueda.

Seen from a distance, the hill of Montmartre hadn't changed much since Roman times. For centuries, old vines had grown there tended by local nuns in the Middle Ages, though the vineyards nowadays had either been built upon or lapsed into waste ground. But one pleasant change had occurred, a number of wooden windmills had gathered near the summit, their lumbering sails turning in the wind, giving the hill a picturesque appearance.

If lack of self-regulation is the essential characteristic of organisms that are destructive, it is the presence of self-regulatory capacity that is critical to the health, survival, and evolution of an organism or an organization.

But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

we had evolved to grub around within a few kilometres of the same village, in the same time zone, under the same fixed stars.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns, which arrived with the promptness and regularity of mail coaches.

Life was indeed a continuous lesson in finding ways to be less troubled by certain things, so that we might make room for new concerns

I wished that adults were as capable as children of moving beyond some impasse, letting go of whatever had been intractable only hours or days ago. I envied them that ability to discard their past selves as if they were old, tattered, useless skins.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.