Quotes About Evolution

Mas los puntos de vista cambian mucho en la vida, que es una linterna mágica cuyos aspectos altera todos los años el ojo del hombre. De ahí resulta que, del último día de un año que se veía blanco, el primer día de otro que se verá negro, sólo hay el espacio de una noche.

They took over from the old order not only most of its customs, conventions, and modes of thought, but even those ideas which prompted our revolutionaries to destroy it; that, in fact, though nothing was further from their intentions, they used the debris of the old order for building up the new.

The greatest difficulty in antiquity with that of altering the law; among the moderns, it is that of altering the manners.

When the English adopted the institution of the jury, they were a half-barbaric people; they have since become one of the most enlightened nations of the globe, and their attachment to the jury has seemed to increase with their enlightenment.

But in the course of thirty years a great change took place, and the North refused to perpetuate what had become the peculiar institution of the South, especially as it gave the South a species of aristocratic preponderance.

The American lives in a land of wonders, in which everything seems to be in constant flux, and every change seems to mark an advance. Hence the idea of the new is coupled in his mind with the idea of the better. Nowhere does he perceive the limits that nature may have imposed on man's efforts. In his eyes, that which does not exist is that which has not yet been attempted.

We have not to seek to make ourselves like our progenitors, but to strive to work out that species of greatness and happiness which is our own.

Although man resembles the animals in several respects, one feature is peculiar to him alone: he perfects himself and they do not.

Having destroyed an aristocratic society, we seem ready to go on living complacently amid the rubble forever.

One epoch's popular culture is another's esoterica.

It was not exasperation.... It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

They were blind to a cold fact of evolution…that progress stems from the clashing merger of antagonistic extremes, out of the marriage of pinnacle freaks.

You are the first to arrive alive in fifty years. You are a puissant man. Arrival of the fittest is the doctrine of the Holy Darwin. Most scientific.

He that builds a city, and does not intend it should increase, commits as great an absurdity, as if he should desire his child might ever continue under the same weakness in which he is born. If it do not grow, it must pine and perish; for in this world nothing is permanent; that which does not grow better will grow worse.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

This was what it meant to be human, to know that time moved and all things changed.

No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.

A boy who is trouble is something entirely different as a man.

I take responsibility for the man I used to be, for I carry him with me. As strong as I am, he's a heavy burden

Maybe you'll both be who you always were if you're given time.

All things change, for that is the way of the world we walk through.

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

I think of life as a book of stories, he goes on. You move through the stories and the characters change.

I heard a bitterness that hadn't been there before. Something was changing inside him. He'd had enough of following the rules.