Quotes About Evolution

First the stalk -- then the roots. First the need -- then the means to satisfy that need. First the nucleus -- then the elements needed for its growth.

You are today the result of your thoughts of yesterday, and the many yesterdays preceeding it. You are forming today the mold for what you will be in the years to come.

A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, A cave where the cave men dwell; Then a sense of law and order, A face upturned from the clod; Some call it Evolution, And others call it God." Reprinted from The New England Journal.

Sometimes. Sometimes you can change what's there, sometimes what's there changes you.

I am personally optimistic. I share the widespread view that we are entering a new epoch during which we can achieve conscious evolution and the elevation of humanity to a constructive steward of the Earth.

This communication alone, by the comparison of the antagonisms, rivalries, movements which give birth to decisive moments, permits the evolution of the soul, whereby a man realizes himself on earth. It is impossible to be concerned with anything else in art.

But life isn't about finding yourself or finding anything, Dylan said, it's about creating yourself.

They also explain many common points in the archaeological finds of these civilizations as due to man's genetic commonality. Thus

I am like the pencil I constantly sharpen with a knife; I am just a dull nub of the person I was.

something about the past. Let me move forward

grown a size larger, in Rowe's opinion. More than

Mirar hacia delante no significa olvidar el pasado, sino precisamente hacer algo con ese pasado.

The thing was not a human — it could not be; it was a growth of Life from the pits of blasphemous creation — a perversion of evolutionary development. The

The gods of yesterday become the devils of tomorrow.

Strike the tent.

The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.

Since we cannot move Leningrad ... then we must move the border.

He [Pierre Teilhard de Chardin] was thrilled with the idea that through work in the world human beings were participating in the ongoing extension and consecration of God's creation.

Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator and change has enemies.

Someone once said that World War Three would be fought with atomic weapons and the next war with sticks and stones.

Change has it's enemies.

Adapt or die, that's as true for religion as it is for people.

Queréis decir que una persona no puede cambiar si se juzga a sí misma o a los demás? ?preguntó el Caballero. Merlín asintió: ?Exactamente. Si juzga a otro, uno no se permite a sí mismo ver el cambio que experimenta.

Even Mozart, perhaps the most gifted composer in history, developed and grew in his art. The music he wrote in his thirties was far more advanced than what he wrote in his twenties or in his teens. The more music he wrote, the more he was able to write.