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Quotes About Evolution

Mientras pensamos en el presente, se está convirtiendo en pasado.
~ Qiu Xiaolong
The children despise their parents until the age of 40, when they suddenly become just like them-thus preserving the system.
~ Quentin
Whereas in the twentieth century, there was a distinction between men and women, in the twenty-first century the lines of gender will become more and more blurred.
~ Quentin Crisp
By the time the last Americans had vanished into thin Englishmen I was nearly forty.
~ Quentin Crisp
It's amazing, the psychology of growing in your field, no matter what you do. Growth comes from mistakes. You have to cherish them, so you can learn from them. Your mistakes are your greatest gift.
~ Quincy Jones
Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
~ Quintilian
Human beings were given a left foot and a right foot to make a mistake first to the left, then to the right, left again and repeat.
~ R. Buckminister Fuller
Either war is obsolete or men are.
~ R. Buckminister Fuller
By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
For at least two million years men have been reproducing and multiplying on a little automated Spaceship Earth.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Humanity is an experimental initiative of Universe.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I live on Earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over the kingdom of the world. … I cannot help but feel that the monkey was not a good choice. Surely one of the cat family would have been much more satisfactory. They have a much less emotional approach to life. ("The Shadmock")
~ R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Ergot, growing millennia later on certain cultivated grains, seems to have coincided in its arrival on the human stage with the discovery by Man of agriculture.
~ R. Gordon Wasson
History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.
~ R. Jackson Wilson
I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
~ R. Lee Ermey
To take some obvious examples: the territorial calls of birds are reproduced in automobile horn blowing, their alarm calls are reproduced in police sirens and their pleasure calls in the beach-side radio.
~ R. Murray Schafer
If only cats grew into kittens.
~ R. Stern
Over the time, it has been renamed several times-Pushpur, Pushpnagar, Kusumpur, Patliputra and now it is called Patna.
~ R.P. Jain
When old words die out on the tongue, new melodies break forth from the heart; and where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
Man's history is being shaped according to the difficulties it encounters.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
For what are obstacles to the lower creatures are opportunities to the higher life of man.
~ Rabindranath Tagore