Quotes About Evolution

That talk with Tommy beside the pond: I think of it now as a kind of marker between the two eras. Not that anything significant started to happen immediately afterwards; but for me at least, that conversation was a turning point. I definitely started to look at everything differently. Where before I'd have backed away from awkward stuff, I began instead, more and more, to ask questions, if not out loud, at least within myself.

Something has changed in the character of the younger generation in a way I do not fully understand, and certain aspects of this change are undeniably disturbing.

As I say, these were helpful lessons for me. Not only had I learned that 'changes' were a part of Josie, and that I should be ready to accommodate them, I'd begun to understand also that this wasn't a trait peculiar just to Josie; that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by – as they might in a store window – and that such a display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

Though you must understand, it's still work in progress. And it's not always easy for a layperson to understand the way these things slowly take shape.

The war, ghastly as it was, represented no more than "an awkward window in Man's evolution" when for a few years our technical progress had run ahead of our organisational capacities.

Potser algun dia tots aquests conflictes s'acabaran, i no serà pas gràcies a cap gran estadista o a cap església o a cap institució com aquesta. Serà perquè la gent haurà canviat. Seran com tu, Puffin: una barreja. ¿Per què no ho hem de voler ser, mestissos? És una cosa saludable.

Não há virtude nenhuma em se apegar à tradição só pela tradição, como fazem alguns.

Not only had I learned that 'changes' were a part of Josie...I'd begun to understand also that this wasn't a trait particular just to Josie; that people often felt the need to prepare a side of themselves to display to passers-by - as they might in a store window - and that such a display needn't be taken so seriously once the moment had passed.

I turn over a new leaf every day. But the blots show through

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

It's so easy to screw up. To make a choice that seems right. Then time passes and you look back and you say, 'How the hell did I do that?' Attitudes change. Insights change. Eventually things you were so damned sure were right become...incomprehensible.

Her niece had the parenting skills of a … Rose didn't even know how to finish that sentence. Any creature in nature so incapable of caring for its young would have died out centuries ago.

Yes, well." The Devil says, "Things just get better and better nowadays.

The world was changing so fast it was hard to keep up. Grigori had never been inside

Nothing is permanent, except change.

People change'. Weak women change to please men, Lili thought.

Un hombre siempre se perfecciona al lograr comprender algo

following year.

glásnost y perestroika, apertura

se quedó asombrado ante el desconocido en que se había convertido.

O deleite transformou-se em tolerância, depois em impaciência e muitas vezes, mais para a frente, em desprezo.

thought, the world will never be quite the same.

y eso le hacía sentirse un hombre nuevo, una criatura diferente, un ave del cielo.

Nada es perdurable, salvo el cambio.