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Quotes About Evolution

Maybe if I had to boil it down to one easy sentence, it would be this: I believe in evolution, and I believe in God. I just haven't worked out the details yet.
~ Robin Brande
As time passes, what was once an unpredictable step sideways becomes a definitive step forward for art.
~ Robin Evans
Even were we to agree, we could notice that things do not develop by continuous extrusion through time like toothpaste squeezed from a tube.
~ Robin Evans
Ka is a wheel; its one purpose is to turn. The spin of ka always brings us back to the same place, to face and reface our mistakes and defeats until we can learn from them. When we learn from the past, the wheel continues to move forward, towards growth and evolution. When we don't, the wheel spins backward, and we are given another chance. If once more we squander the opportunity, the wheel continues its rotation towards devolution, or destruction.
~ Robin Furth
We were developing a principle with the music box that we tried to stick with for the rest of our toy career," Ruth explained. "If you develop a basic mechanism or a basic concept, you develop one or two or three items around that concept at the initial introduction, and then year after year you add new products around the initial concept.
~ Robin Gerber
Ah, Catylast, can it be that you do not see all the changes you have made? Some by your resignation and acceptance of circumstance, some by your wild struggles. You say that you hate change, but you *are* change. The Fool in Fool's Fate
~ Robin Hobb
Trust had. But I had broken that, like a child who takes something apart to see how it works and ends up with a handful of pieces. Perhaps he could not be the Fool again, any more than I could go back to being Burrich's stable boy. Perhaps our relationship had changed too profoundly for us to relate as Fitz and the Fool. Perhaps Tom Badgerlock and Lord Golden were all that was left to us.
~ Robin Hobb
there is no sense in trying to play that game with the past. Here is where we are today, and we can only make our moves from here.
~ Robin Hobb
She could be shaped by her past without being trapped by it" p. 283
~ Robin Hobb
Changes were the essence of life; one should not dread change.
~ Robin Hobb
Be now what you must be to succeed at the end of your journey, and when the end comes, you will find it is just another beginning.' Althea
~ Robin Hobb
A bad end is just a new beginning
~ Robin Hobb
Maulkin abruptly heaved himself out of his wallow with a wild thrash that left the atmosphere hanging thick with particles. Shreds of his shed skin floated with the sand and muck like the dangling remnants of dreams when one awakes.
~ Robin Hobb
You will change. I think. Not all change is bad. Change is seldom good or bad; it's only change. A tadpole becomes a frog. A poker is beaten into a blade. A chicken becomes meat. In a dream, I saw a feather slowly hammered into a blade. I saw the hard nut crack and become a mighty tree. I saw the young doe slain and cut into meat. You will become something different tonight.
~ Robin Hobb
Life is not a race to restore a past situation. Nor does one have to hurry to meet the future. Seeing how things change are what makes life interesting.
~ Robin Hobb
Wherever there is change, a clever man can find a profit.
~ Robin Hobb
In the space of a handful of nights, her whole concept of what a ship was underwent a sea-change.
~ Robin Hobb
I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.
~ Robin Hobb
It was as it had to be. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.
~ Robin Hobb
Change rained fast and furious on me for the next fortnight.
~ Robin Hobb
History is what we do in our lives. We create it as we go along.
~ Robin Hobb
They had to grow and change. He told me that if the happy ending of the tale was just a return to how things had been at the beginning, well, what was the point of writing that story at all?
~ Robin Hobb
THE IMAGE OF Christ crucified is so ubiquitous in Christian art that it seems impossible that it was not there from the first. Yet, art historians have been unable to identify an unambiguously Christian crucifix before the fourth or early fifth century, and only a few examples before the sixth century. Though crosses and episodes from the events of Christ's Passion began to appear on Christian artifacts by the mid-fourth century, none ever depicted Christ on the cross.
~ Robin M Jensen
The British Army was learning how to fight the 'all-arms' battle by this stage of the war; no longer would the brunt be left to the infantry.
~ Robin Neillands