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Quotes About Evolution

Every time that I'm challenged with a film I think that I haven't learned anything, that every film is different and that every thing that I have learned is useless in this new adventure.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I would really like, in fact, to be born again in another two hundred years' time.
~ Alessandro Manzoni
The shape of my work's development becomes a little clearer every time I am forced to articulate it.
~ Anne Truitt
I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time.
~ Bill Gates
I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
~ Bryan Adams
Time changes every man. Unusual circumstances change them in unusual ways
~ Bryant Gumbel
Each time your mind changes your whole world is changed.
~ Byron Katie
Don't you feel a change a coming From another side of time, Breaking down the walls of silence, Lifting shadows from your mind.
~ Cat Stevens
I fully realize that the new organization is a human rather than a perfect instrumentality for the attainment of its great objective. As time goes on it will, I am sure, be improved.
~ Cordell Hull
From the time that 'Nevermind' came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.
~ Dave Grohl
The public so often want to freeze the artist in a moment in time when they were at their peak, and they want the artist to revisit it over and over again as if it was something authentic.
~ David Sylvian
The Eagles ended on a rather abrupt note, although in retrospect I realize now that it had been ending for quite some time.
~ Don Henley
Mesarovic and Pestel are critical of the Forrester-Meadows world view, which is that of a homogeneous system with a fully predetermined evolution in time once the initial conditions are specified.
~ Donella Meadows
I'd go on record and say yes, I think it's time.
~ Earl Campbell
Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.
~ Alfred Russel Wallace
Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.
~ Charles de Gaulle
I want to see books taken out of historical time and placed into a different timeline, such as evolutionary or geological time, as a means of putting the human experience in context.
~ Douglas Coupland
Nothing should lessen our satisfaction with ourselves as much as when we notice that we disapprove of something at one time that we approve of at another time.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
~ Kevin Kelly
The way that organizations and organisms anticipate the future is by taking signals from the past, most the time.
~ Kevin Kelly
Were there stories I wrote along the way that were terrible clinkers? God, yes. But they were all a product of their time, and I did the best I could.
~ Len Wein
The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.
~ Loren Eiseley
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
~ Maureen Johnson
I feel like we can prove in real time the old trope that comedy is tragedy plus time.
~ Mike Birbiglia