Quotes About Evolution

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. —ANAïS NIN

What we see, we see and seeing is changing

this is where I live now. If you had known me once, you'd still know me now though in a different light and life. This is no place you ever knew me.

Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act

We find ourselves at once in prehistory and in science fiction [ Shakespeare's Sisters .

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

For every minute, the future is becoming the past.

The beauty of the past belongs to the past.

I am not sentimental about the past. I like to think about what is next.

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past; one only adds a new link.

Chasing after the past is not going to lead you to the future you want.

I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

In my opinion, there are fewer and fewer great goalkeepers because, with respect to when I started, they have to do so much more compared with in the past.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

I think it's our job to write about what we're going through at the moment, and being 41, I'm not going to write about the same things I wrote about at 20. I don't think artists should be farmed out to pasture just because they're in rock n' roll.

We really ought to give ourselves a collective pat on the back for doing as well as we have in a universe of constant media change and mutation.

Every season has its bad patches.

In charting our course to the future, we are mindful of our path from the past.