Quotes About Evolution

All different forms of human expression, art, science, are going to become expanded, by expanding our intelligence.

These days I smile benignly at the fights that I see in NBA games. There aren't any broken noses or black eyes, which happened quite often when I played.

The process of democracy is one of change. Our laws are not frozen into immutable form, they are constantly in the process of revision in response to the needs of a changing society.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself.

We have to build a better man before we can build a better society.

We're involved in a society which is undergoing some really weird changes now.

Change in society is of secondary importance; that will come about naturally, inevitably, when you as a human being bring about the change in yourself.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

In the next ten years we will have to continue to make changes which will make the whole of this country a genuinely classless society.

Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.

Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact. Only a spiritually bankrupt society could ever believe it. Only atheists could accept this Satanic theory.

The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature, in society, in man himself.

These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist.

In our society many of the old rituals have lost much of their power. New ones have not arisen.

People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.

I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published.... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.

Consuming life cannot be other than a life of rapid learning, but it also needs to be a life of swift forgetting.

La posibilidad de contener y asimilar la imparable masa de innovaciones es cada vez menos promisoria, por no decir inalcanzable.

Lo que se enfatiza en todo momento es el olvidar, el borrar, el dejar y el reemplazar.

Ningún marino de hoy perdería el tiempo reparando la parte que ya no sirve para navegar, sino que más bien la reemplazaría con una pieza de repuesto.

Progress is a law—and theft too has its creation.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

Things go away to return, brightened for the passage

Flux has heightened us into knots of staid tension.