Quotes About Evolution

The anthropologists are busy, indeed, and ready to transport us back into the savage forest where all human things have their beginnings but the seed never explains the flower.

Ideas carried out stimulate more ideas.

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.

A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

The march of the human mind is slow.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

When one flowers dies, another is born.

Without mankind machines are nothing.

Roosevelt remarked on the anomaly whereby man, as he progressed from savagery to civilization, used up more and more of the world's resources, yet in doing so tended to move to the city, and lost his sense of dependence on nature.

It is true, as the champions of the extremists say, that there can be no life without change, and that to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life. It is no less true, however, that change may mean death and not life, and retrogression instead of development.

seen as paving the way for an age of innovation.

flourishing comes from the experience of the new: new situations, new problems, new insights, and new ideas to develop and share.

The ever-whirling wheelOf Change; the which all mortal things doth sway.

But times do change and move continually.

Things used to be plain and simple; you did a thing and you knew how it would turn out. But not now. The world was changing.

We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable...

The younger generation forms a country of its own.

Perfecting oneself is as much unlearning as it is learning.

No hay en todo el Universo chapuza más grande ni trasto peor hecho que el cuerpo humano. Sólo las orejas, pegadas al cráneo de cualquier modo, ya bastarían para descalificarlo. Los pies son ridículos; las tripas, asquerosas. Todas las calaveras tienen una cara de risa que no viene a cuento. De todo ello los seres humanos sólo son culpables hasta cierto punto. La verdad es que tuvieron mala suerte con la evolución.

a veces se nos va la vida en una discusión, en un deseo, y después pasa algo que lo cambia todo, lo trastoca todo, y el viejo deseo queda reducido a nada.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

All things are in motion, all is in process, nothing abides, nothing will ever change in this eternal moment.