Quotes About Evolution

You got some idealist idea about man being some noble creature Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and all this crap about how we can change human nature. You can't change it, you're beating your head against a brick wall. People have had a couple of million years to change and they ain't changed yet, have they?

Evelyn was forty-eight years old and she had gotten lost somewhere along the wa. Things had changed so fast. While she had been raising the required two children - a boy for him and a girl for me- the world had become a different kind of place, a place she didn't know at all.

When someone old dies, it is even sadder. First you notice that the paper doesn't come anymore, then gradually the lights are turned out, the gas turned off, the house gets locked up, and the yard is no longer kept up, then it goes on the market and new people come in and change everything. Elner

liberty came to the West centuries before democracy. Liberty led to democracy and not the other way around.

Lenin is supposed to have once said, "There are decades when nothing happens, and then there are weeks when decades happen.

The number of people on the planet has risen fivefold since 1900, while the average lifespan has doubled.

Harvard's polymath professor Steven Pinker argues "that today we are probably living in the most peaceful time in our species' existence.

In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them seem to me written by a stranger: I simply do not recognize myself in them. There was a person who wrote them, and it was I. I experienced them, but it was in another life, from which I just woke up, as if from someone else's dream.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

It's been a long time since i've been me.

it seems that what's artificial has become natural, and what's natural is now strange. Or rather, it's not that what's artificial has become natural; it's simply that what's natural has changed.

O que é certo é que entre um homem vulgar e um macaco há menos diferença que entre um homem vulgar e um homem realmente culto.

Everything comes from humanity and humanity is always the same — changeable but incapable of perfection, vacillating but incapable of progress.

Now he is something anyone can be.

To fight for change is to be incapable of changing oneself. To reform is to be beyond repair.*

Todo cuanto vive, vive porque cambia; cambia porque pasa; y, porque pasa, muere.

In another age we mastered the physical ocean, thereby creating universal civilization; now we will master the psychological ocean, emotion, mother human nature, thereby creating intellectual civilization.

More things have died in me than just my past.

How is it that I have advanced only to become what I already was? How could I know myself today when I did not yesterday?

Desenrolo-me como uma meada multicolor, ou faço comigo figuras de cordel, como as que se tecem nas mãos espetadas e se passam de umas crianças para as outras. Cuido só de que o polegar não falhe o laço que lhe compete. Depois viro a mão e a imagem fica diferente. E recomeço.

Bendita a dor e a pena pelas quais o Mundo se transforma.

La verdad es que son precisamente los animales quienes sólo emplean el sexo para procrear

Progresar es tanto innovar como conservar lo conseguido.

For all things change, making way for each other