Quotes About Evolution

self-conscious principle: change as reform, rather than revolution.

Evolution" is not a bad word for the version of nature that Aristotle brings to the philosophical table.14 It is a world in which all things, puppies, men, plants, and animals, are constantly altering and changing, a nature in which all of us emerge from something and grow into something else without losing our identities, either as individuals or as part of a class of individuals (so even if Rover grows up to look nothing like his earlier puppy self, he is still Rover).

Dingen kunnen nog zo rotsvast zitten, zolang je zelf maar blijft bewegen kun je ze altijd weer veranderen. Eén stap opzij, een stapje van niks is genoeg en heel de wereld oogt anders. Een mens moet in het leven zijn eigen coulissen verplaatsen.

Mijn stelling is dat alle vooruitgang voortkomt uit beperking.

Civilizations do not then "fall"—they are merely replaced by another culture, which is the product of the new population.

In creating the human brain, evolution has wildly overshot the mark.

The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes.

History had a slow pulse; man counted in years, history in generations

When one contemplates the streak of insanity running through human history, it appears highly probable that homo sapiens is a biological freak, the result of some remarkable mistake in the evolutionary process. The ancient doctrine of original sin, variants of which occur independently in the mythologies of diverse cultures, could be a reflection of man's awareness of his own inadequacy, of the intuitive hunch that somewhere along the line of his ascent something has gone wrong.

Siamo circondati da sacri mestieri del bene e del male, e viviamo e ci muoviamo in un mondo oscuro, un luogo di tenebre, caverne ed abitatori del crepuscolo. Talvolta accade che l'uomo si volga indietro sulle tracce della propria evoluzione, ed è mia opinione che esistano segreti paurosi non ancora dimenticati.

There are sacraments of evil as well as of good about us, and we live and move to my belief in an unknown world, a place where there are caves and shadows and dwellers in twilight. It is possible that man may sometimes return on the track of evolution, and it is my belief that an awful lore is not yet dead.

A man can't go out the way he came in… a man has got to add up to something!

The processes revealed by the sciences, especially evolutionary biology, are in themselves God-acting-as-creator. There is no need to look for God as some kind of additional factor supplementing the processes of the world. God, to use language usually applied in sacramental theology, is "in, with, and under" all-that-is and all-that-goes-on

The world progresses! Why shouldn't it turn as well?

Y si un trozo de madera descubre que es un violín?

La Poésie ne rythmera plus l'action; elle sera en avant.

Arthur Rimbaud

Le monde n'a pas d'âge. L'humanité se déplace, simplement. (The world has no age. Humanity simply changes place.)

What was I in the century past: I only find myself today. The vagabonds, the hazy wars are gone. The inferior race has swept over all - the People, as they put it, Reason; Nation and Science.

Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first, it is ridiculed. In the second, it is opposed. In the third, it is regarded as self-evident.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Life is a constant process of dying.

But I do know you need to clear out the old to make way for the new. See, isn't that a wise saying? Won't I make a good and clever king? I'm fit for the role.