Quotes About Evolution

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Disapproval is a very important factor in all progress. There has really never been any progress without it.

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.

The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved.

Society evolves not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

Only when you question does society move or advance at all.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.

It's too bad our society isn't further along.

Scientific progress consists in the development of new concepts.

The evolution of a highly destined society must be moral; it must run in the grooves of the celestial wheels.

We are at a stage in history in which remolding society is one of the great challenges facing all of us in the West.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

As society has changed, what had formerly been unacceptable has become colorful.

Next to the pastoral came the agricultural life. When you add to that the manufacturing phase of development, society begins to fill out, and needs but wings to fly, and commerce is its wings.