Quotes About Evolution

Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty glass on the kitchen counter, an open toothpaste tube, unmade beds, their sheets stained with urine; he leaves grandfather clocks, cigarette burns in the ashtrays, comics that have been scrawled on and books borrowed from the school library; he leaves clothes in the wardrobes and food in the fridge.

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

Enquanto a língua é um rio caudaloso, longo e largo, que nunca se detém em seu curso, a gramatica normativa é apenas um igapó, uma grande poça de água parada, um charco, um brejo, um terreno alagadiço, á margem da língua.

Observe always that everything is the result of change, and get used to thinking that there is nothing Nature loves so well as to change existing forms and make new ones like them.

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Frightened of change? But what can exist without it? What's closer to nature's heart? Can you take a hot bath and leave the firewood as it was? Eat food without transforming it? Can any vital process take place without something being changed? Can't you see? It's just the same with you—and just as vital to nature.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor will anyone now alive. For it is in the nature of all things to change and alter and perish, so that others may arise in their turn.

All is change. You yourself are continuously changing and being destroyed bit by bit. So is the whole universe.

Time is like a river made up of the events which hap­pen, and a vi­ol­ent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is car­ried away, and an­other comes in its place, and this will be car­ried away too.

All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.

Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.

The world is maintained by change—in the elements and in the things they compose. That

We shrink from change; yet is there anything that can come into being without it?

Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis.

XV. Is any man so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being? And

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change. 43.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be. But thou art thinking only of seeds which are cast into the earth or into a womb: but this is a very vulgar notion.

Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.

Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the ones that make plants or children? Go deeper.

as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.

All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whole world), must of necessity at some time or other come to corruption. Alteration I should say, to speak truly and properly; but that I may be the better understood, I am content at this time to use that more common word.

It's the nature of the universe—all things must change, including you. Embrace it.

When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change