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Quotes About Evolution

Natural selection is not the only process that changes organisms over time. But is the only process that seemingly designs organisms over time.
~ Steven Pinker
Style is time's fool. Form is time's student
~ Stewart Brand
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like the other monkeys, and we look less like them all the time.
~ Terence McKenna
The radio craze will die out in time.
~ Thomas A. Edison
There will come a time where I'm not gonna do this anymore. I mean, there will come a time, definitely, where I'll turn into Elvis I'm gonna be fat and fishin', I guarantee you.
~ Tim McGraw
You never know, the way technology is going, we might all use the games for scouting by the time I retire.
~ Tony Parker
In performance, you dont always feel that sort of family bond right off the top. It sort of develops and grows over time.
~ Uzo Aduba
The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene.
~ William Faulkner
I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.
~ Yusef Komunyakaa
Who would know but ten years ago that kids would be texting each other all the time, that that would be one of their main forms of communication.
~ Amy Klobuchar
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
~ Alan Perlis
No barrier was strong enough to keep out the movement of time.
~ Alice Hoffman
Success means participating fully in the conscious evolution of humanity, contributing to the shift in time to avoid the chaos and disasters foreseen.
~ Barbara Marx Hubbard
This ugly duckling investment will likely need time - quarters, or even years - to blossom into a beautiful swan.
~ Barry Ritholtz
You're not going to hear me do a rap song, you're not going to hear me do a jazz song. We have to be true to our roots, do what we do, and try to do it a little better each time.
~ Bob Seger
The writing and making of each of my albums has been such a different beast each time, so I'm interested in seeing what kind of animal the fourth one turns out to be!
~ Brooke Fraser
A civilization is complicated, in the first place, because it is dynamic; that is, it is constantly changing in the passage of time, until it has perished.
~ Carroll Quigley
Once you break the social norm and create a new social norm, all of a sudden it can stay with us for a long time.
~ Dan Ariely
Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
~ Barack Obama
I had a wonderful time with the Stones but after 31 years, I thought it was time to move on.
~ Bill Wyman
Take a good hard look in the mirror, and remember yourself as you are today, cause as time changes, so does the scenery.
~ Robert M. Hensel
Like one time I was a fish in Noah's Ark and now I'm in Harry Potter, a big step.
~ Rupert Grint
I can't go back to being who I used to be!' Hadley looked down at him sympathetically. 'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.
~ Margaret Peterson Haddix
Michael Richardson's eyes had grown brighter. His face had tightened into the full of maturity. Pain was etched upon it, ancient, primordial pain. The moment they saw him again this way, they knew that nothing—no word, no earthly act of violence-could have the least effect upon the change in Michael Richardson. That it now had to be played out to the bitter end. Michael Richardson's new tale had already begun to take shape.
~ Marguerite Duras