Quotes About Evolution

People , she used to think, do not change, they are merely revealed.

Russians are trying to figure out who they are and where they fit into the world.

the staff, which once welcomed foreign funders and reporters with open arms, is now no longer willing to meet.

No other mammal produces even a fraction of the kind of original vocal play that human babies do.

There is no singular meaning of wife. That is the point. That is its meaning. To see the wife fully through a multi-faceted lens is one of the central challenges facing society in the twenty-first century. To do this, new scripts are required that employ wife as a verb and as a gender-neutral concept. These are essential if we are to create necessary new narratives, new ways of living as women and men together.

A hundred years for now? All new people.

The wave of the future is coming and there is no fighting it.

All life is variation upon certain themes

The world changes, we do not, therein lies the irony that kills us.

I seem to be a ship that is sailing out of my own life.

Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself... ("You, Doctor Martin")

If we constantly rewrite history to fit how we see things now, we forget how things used to be and, equally important to future scholars, how we used to see them.

Once upon a time, there was a woman who discovered she had turned into the wrong person.

There were so many Jacks she had known, and he had known so many Hazels. And maybe she wasn't going to be able to know all the Jacks that there would be. But all the Hazels that ever would be would have Jack in them, somewhere.

You are where you are, you don't have to judge it, although some of the old poems might be more interesting than some I might write tomorrow.

Life is a process. We are a process. The Universe is a process.

The question for us is how have our experiences affected us and what do we need to do to learn from our experiences, to work through those lessons, integrate them into our being, turn them over, and move on?

It's not the strongest of the species that survives, neither is it the most intelligent that survives. It is the most adaptable to change.

And yet what has been learned can be unlearned.

The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on changing size, hasn't much apparent use, sometimes makes you sick, and occasionally breaks off into smaller parts that act exactly like the parent.

The biological birth of the human infant and the psychological birth of the individual are not coincident in time. The former is a dramatic, observable, and well-circumscribed event; the latter a slowly unfolding intrapsychic process.

As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth.

Someone ought to do it, but why should I? Someone ought to do it, so why not I? Between these two sentences lie whole centuries of moral evolution.

There was a time when any idea of voluntary limitation was regarded by pious people as interfering with Providence. We are beyond that now, and have become capable of recognising that Providence works through the common sense of individual brains.