Quotes About Evolution

The beauty of life is its sudden changes. No one knows what is going to happen next, and so we are constantly being surprised and entertained.

Isn't a dead language rather a sad thing, Janet? Once it lived and burned and glowed. People said loving things in it…bitter things…wise and silly things in it. I wonder who was the very last person to utter a sentence in living Latin.

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

I think that I could see Darwin having a relationship with Asia.

I don't know where we went wrong, but the feeling's gone and I just can't get it back.

The pace of change means that relationship is more important than ever before.

Trying to hold onto any relationship as it was, keeps you from the joyous adventure of what it can become.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

Hypertext is an idea. The Internet is a medium. They grow up beside each other, they influence each other, and their evolving relationship will probably provide a great story for future biographers.

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

Emotional sympathies just dry up and die as we change, and they are as mysterious in friendship as in love. It's a relationship like any other.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

Every relationship you have, you're learning and growing and taking something from that.

Just because a romantic relationship ends doesn't mean that the other facets of your relationship have to end... or, indeed, doesn't mean they can't get better.

You don't need to get rid of religion; you have to outgrow the need for it. In other words, instead of hoping for the good life, you make the good life.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

Creationist critics often charge that evolution cannot be tested, and therefore cannot be viewed as a properly scientific subject at all. This claim is rhetorical nonsense.

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Thermodynamics, correctly interpreted, does not just allow Darwinian evolution; it favors it.

What yesterday was still religion is no longer such today; and what today is atheism, tomorrow will be religion.

120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.