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Quotes About Evolution

Life gets more interesting as it goes on. It becomes fuller because there is perspective there.
~ Ann Dowd
Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.
~ Anne Lamott
When I look at my life there are these streams, these things that have continuity from the fifties to now.
~ Anne Waldman
One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.
~ Annie Lennox
Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.
~ Arianna Huffington
I sometimes wonder how we spent leisure time before satellite television and Internet came along…and then I realise that I have spent more than half of my life in the 'dark ages'!
~ Arthur C. Clarke
There is one great and universal wish of mankind expressed in all religions, in all art and philosophy, and in all human life: the wish to pass beyond himself as he now is.
~ Beatrice M. Hinkle
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
~ Ben Okri
And there hasn't been much progress in Darwinism since [the life of Darwin].
~ Ben Stein
Change is constant in a progressive country.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.
~ Bertrand Russell
I never said I wanted to be a singer for the rest of my life.
~ Beth Ditto
Life is about growth. People are not perfect when they're 21 years old.
~ Bill Walton
There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.
~ Billy Joel
I was listening to stuff and I realized that I've had a lot of different lives. You know the theory [that says] every seven years, you have a different life? I think that's true.
~ Billy Joel
If we do destroy most life on this planet, science says it won't be the first time.
~ Bryan Kest
Life is about change, sometimes you just have to roll with the punches.
~ Caroline Manzo
Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.
~ Carolyn Heilbrun
I got kind of tired of playing, I think. But I think it will be part of my life again, maybe.
~ Carrie Brownstein
The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.
~ Cate Marvin
On your life, underestimating the proclivities of finches is likely to lead to great internal hemorrhaging.
~ Charles Darwin
We have reason not to be afraid of the machine, for there is always constructive change, the enemy of machines, making them change to fit new conditions.
~ Charles Kettering
I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?
~ Charles Lindbergh
Life begets intelligence, intelligence begets smart matter and a singularity.
~ Charles Stross