Quotes About Evolution

True learning involves learning other ways of doing what you can do already.

The version of Christianity that is dying today is rooted in the grossly misunderstood concept of atonement

The Christian story did not drop from heaven fully written. It grew and developed year by year over a period of forty-two to seventy years. That is not what most Christians have been taught to think, but it is factual. Christianity has always been an evolving story. It was never, even in the New Testament, a finished story.

The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.

My thoughts were gentle, not so long ago. I no longer have that luxury.

Okie use' ta mean you was from Oklahoma. Now it means you're scum. Don't mean nothing itself, it's the way they say it.

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.

Governments must be made for human beings as they are, or as they are capable of speedily becoming.

toda época ha sostenido opiniones que las épocas posteriores han demostrado ser, no sólo falsas, sino absurdas;

Not since the steam engine has any invention disrupted business models like the Internet. Whole industries including music distribution, yellow-pages directories, landline telephones, and fax machines have been radically reordered by the digital revolution.

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

The Internet creates as well as destroys. Social networks, search advertising, and cloud computing are multibillion dollar industries that didn't exist 10 years ago. They are products of the same force that has rendered the Postal Service's core business obsolete.

Nearly a century ago a French sociologist wrote that every institution's unstated first goal is to survive and grow, not to undertake the mission it has nominally staked out for itself.

People can change, but systems cannot without losing their structural integrity.

The earth might move, but human nature only accepts the move when it suits human purposes.

Is it possible that those who sit atop the social bell curve represent the worst of evolution's products, not its best? Have the fools among us who just don't get it risen up and taken command?

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

Originally, Fannie Farmer used 1/3 cup of sugar. This amount has crept up over the years, even though apples get sweeter and sweeter: 1/2 cup should be plenty.

He had changed. And not for the good. He was using strong language - filthy in her estimation - and had become totally immersed in the restoration of the motorcycle.