Quotes About Evolution

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

Civilization flows; culture thickens and coagulates, like tired, sick, stifled blood.

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were to true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical

We'll work it out as we go along. Let our practice form our doctrine, thus assuring precise theoretical coherence.

Every monster was a man first.

Progress is a set of assumptions.

Time passes. You're not as ... recognizable now as you were.

The notion that women are less aesthetically profound and innovative than men--just not very important, if you know what I mean--doubtless spreads back to our beginnings as upright animals: the males hunted and killed for the family while the females stayed home in the cave and tended the strange little creatures they were giving birth to.

the path to change is not through greater willpower and harder work, but rather through thinking differently.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. —B. F. Skinner

The unchanging element is change—

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.

With a tear for the dark past, turn we then to the dazzling future, and, veiling our eyes, press forward. The long and weary winter of the race is ended. Its summer has begun. Humanity has burst the chrysalis. The heavens are before it.

do not think I have ever met with a single fact which seems to me to justify the theory, of which Dr. von Martius is perhaps the leading advocate, that the ordinary condition of the savage is the result of degeneration from a far higher state.

degeneration has been rather of a local than of a general character,

Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

We may have a perfectly adequate way of doing something, but that does not mean there cannot be a better way. So we set out to find an alternative way. This is the basis of any improvement that is not fault correction or problem solving.

Vorsprung durch Technik. Progress through technology.

You've come a long way baby.

As far as I'm concerned, progress peaked with frozen pizza.

If you keep doing things like you've always done them, what you'll get is what you've already got.