Quotes About Evolution

Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.

Now you've a clean start... you've brushed three or four ornaments down, and in a fit of pique knocked off the rest of them. The thing now is to collect some new ones, and the farther you look ahead in the collecting, the better, but remember, do the next thing.

You can't repeat the past.

I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition….

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

A classic, suggested Anthony, is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion…. After

that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition…. Then

His day, usually a jellylike creature, a shapeless, spineless thing, had attained Mesozoic structure. It was marching along surely, even jauntily, towards a climax, as a play should, as a day should.

Te mondod folyton, hogy az embernek egyre több dolgot kell megismernie, és ha ezt abbahagyja, olyan lesz, mint a többi ember, és hogy addig kell elérnie valamit, míg ezt a folytonos megismerést abba nem hagyja.

You used to say a man knows things and when he stops knwing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment

Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart. Already

founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes but after a certain point I don't care what it's founded on. When I came back from

He would be a different person henceforward, and in his raw state he had bizarre feelings of what his new self would be.

bouleversement and was hurrying into line with his generation.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

The 'belle' had become the 'flirt', the 'flirt' had become the 'baby vamp'.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Don't let yourself feel worthless; often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it; at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 P.M. If

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.