Quotes About Evolution

There is no such thing as an ending, or a beginning for that matter, everything is middle.

You have changed. Once upon a time, Artemis Fowl would have vowed revenge." "Once upon a time.

evolution had stripped them of this power.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Nothing great comes into being all at once, for that is not the case even with a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me now, 'I want a fig,' I'll reply, 'That takes time.

For it is always true that to whatever point the perfecting of anything leads us, progress is an approach towards this point.

It isn't possible to change your behaviour and still be the same person you were before.

Birth after birth the line unchanging runs, And fathers live transmitted in their sons; Each passing year beholds the unvarying kinds, The same their manners, and the same their minds:Till, as erelong successive buds decay, And insect-shoals successive pass away, Increasing wants the pregnant parent vex With the fond wish to form a softer sex. ..

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and rais'd in Ocean's pearly caves First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire, and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin, and feet and wing.

The mass starts into a million suns; Earths round each sun with quick explosions burst, And second planets issue from the first. [The first concept of a 'big bang' theory of the universe.]

As history shows, progress is not necessarily linear or permanent. But neither is retrogression.

The tide of change rose and then receded, but it left behind an altered landscape.

Druk, odbicie, to w istocie wg??bienie uzyskane za pomoc? nacisku; dzieje drukarstwa, to historia zanikania tych wg??bie?.

In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

In times of change the learners will inherit the earth, while the knowers will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

Man was nature's mistake—she neglected to finish him—and she has never ceased paying for her mistake.

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

we all go through changes in search of self!

And a woman needs a man to protect her from other men. Well, women used to. . . . Things have changed. Women are in the middle East, fighting and protecting men now.

we exist today because this is how our ancestors behaved. We evolve today by ensuring that our definition of our group os wide enough to take advantage of diversity and narrow enough to be actionable.

we can take a kinder view of our species, as one not built well enough to handle what it has been tasked to handle, and also a tougher view, demanding of our species that it look at its shortfalls and do what it can to rise above them.

Wilson argues that knowledge is gained and science progresses through a process of conflict and resolution.

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.