Quotes About Evolution

Once I read autobiography as what the writer thought about his or her life. Now I think, 'This is what they thought at that time'. An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those things you thought were eternal.

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

So, the ant way of life is very ancient and very successful. As far as human beings are concerned, we've been around for only one million years--too soon be sure.

Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested.

I won't go back to the theater. I like some of the things they're doing but it's different now, not something I could do. I'll go on making films the rest of my life.

life is a succession of readjustments.

Life is about change, it never stops, it's moving and it's moving this human body inexorably towards its demise.

Life for me is about movement.

I admire Lincoln enormously and I think what's interesting about Lincoln is how he changes, it's not that he held the same view throughout his life.

What would be impressing to me, is in 30 days you see a change in your life.

Life is full of all sorts of things, and I never expected to be a part of this. I never expected to be a model. I never expected to be a stylist. Or a designer. So you never know.

Your development as a person should coincide with your development in all aspects of your life.

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.

A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation

I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

What can be the dharma at one point in your life can totally reverse itself, and suddenly you might be doing something the opposite or something very new, something you never considered.

During those years the past life recollections began. Psychic powers developed, my meditation increased and I found myself changing, over and over again, becoming someone new almost every day.

A part of them has grown very attached to a certain way of life.

There is no best teacher. Life itself is the teacher. There is no best method. All that matters is that it works.

It seemed that everywhere you went, people quickly adapted to the way they had to live, and called it Life.

Some departures bring more light to your life!