Quotes About Evolution

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

I wish to say what I think and feel today, with the proviso that tomorrow perhaps I shall contradict it all.

The never-ending task of self improvement.

Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

A man's growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

The surest poison is time.

All great speakers were bad speakers at first.

Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the gulf, in the darting to an aim.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Permanence is but a word of degrees.

Every spirit builds itself a house; and beyond its house a world; and beyond its world, a heaven.

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

The point of imperfection which we occupy -- is it on the way up or down?

Man is explicable by nothing less than all his history.

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

Conservatives and Progressives. These two parties, which divide our government—and every other government—have been fighting for control of the world from the very beginning. History is the chronicle of their battles: between nobles and commoners, rulers and rebels, old traditions and new ideas, the rich and the poor. As the world turns, one side gets the upper hand, then the other, and back again. Only the names change.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series. Every general law only a particular fact of some more general law presently to disclose itself. There is no outside, no inclosing wall, no circumference to us. The

A subtle chain of countless rings The next unto the farthest brings; The eye reads omens where it goes, And speaks all languages the rose; And, striving to be man, the worm Mounts through all the spires of form.

I have forgotten the books I have read, and so I have the dinners I have eaten, but they both helped to make me.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.