Quotes About Evolution

Embryo minds, like embryo bodies, pass through a number of strange metamorphoses before they adopt their final shape.

What a lucky thing the wheel was invented before the automobile; otherwise can you imagine the awful screeching?

There are, in every age, new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.

The natural progress of the works of men is from rudeness to convenience, from convenience to elegance, and from elegance to nicety

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

None are happy but by the anticipation of change. The change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The wild vicissitudes of taste.

New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new.

The past does not repeat itself, but it rhymes.

It is neither cowardice nor betrayal to insist that the Enlightenment's main lesson is to be mindful of how much it has left its inheritors to figure out.

path a bit in order to follow the step-by-step developments

It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West.

Things have made you what you are," she recited "What you are will make you what you will become.

I pass beneath a fixed white line of trees where dry leaves lie for footsteps to dismember. They crackle with a muted sound like fear. That and the wind are all that I can hear. I ask cold air, "What is the word that frees?" The wind says, "Change," and the white sun, "Remember.

I also believe that the most meaningful change, where individuals can triumph over both entropy and evolution as it were, comes when people use empirical knowledge against good taste, use strength against power, skill against art, and technology against science in their easiest and unthinking modes.

When he's connected up to your nervous system, you'll be able to make him whistle, hiss, roar, flap his wings, and spit sparks, though it may take a few days to assimilate him into your body picture. Don't be surprised if at first he just burps and looks seasick. Take your shirt off, please.

Things have made you what you are. What you are will make you what you will become.

You have to grow all the time," I said. "Not necessarily get bigger. But inside your head you have to grow, kid-boy. For us human-type people that's what's important. And that kind of growing never stops. At least it shouldn't. You can grow, kid-boy; or you can die. That's the choice you've got, and it goes on all of your life.

Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn

Will sex between humans ever lose its endlessly repeated history?

Bellona used to be a pretty good town.

History is cyclic, not repetitive.

I've thought, maybe: It's not the season that changes. It's us. The whole city shifts, turns, rearranges itself. All the time. And rearranges us…

The history of science fiction tends to be the history of its editors.