Quotes About Evolution

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.

Your work is to survive. Neither his kind, nor his kind of thinking will survive long. They are the crown of creation, they are ambition fulfilled—they have nowhere more to go. But life is change, that is how it differs from the rocks, change is its very nature. Who, then, were the recent lords of creation, that they should expect to remain unchanged?

But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.

They haven't God's word like they thought: God doesn't have any last word. If He did He'd be dead. But He isn't dead; and He changes and grows, like everything else that's alive

The essential quality of life is living; the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution: and we are part of it. The static, the enemy of change, is the enemy of life, and therefore our implacable enemy.

And so the one in our garden continued its growth peacefully, as did thousands like it in neglected spots all over the world. It was some little time later that the first one picked up its roots and walked.

Soldiering'll soon be nothing but wizards and wires.

Only so few years ago,' Josella said reflectively, 'people were wailing about the way those bungalows were destroying the countryside. Now look at them.' 'The countryside is having its revenge, all right,' I said.

Will you agree to be superseded, and start on the way to extinction without a struggle? I do not think you are decadent enough for that.

laws evolved by one particular species, for the convenience of that species, are, by their nature, concerned only with the capacities of that species—against a species with different capacities they simply become inapplicable.

I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays.

The living form defies evolution at its peril; if it does not adapt, it will be broken. The idea of completed man is the supreme vanity: the finished image is a sacrilegious myth.

once we had developed intelligence we weren't satisfied with the world as we found it;

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.

history is the negation of nature.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

They are the hands he started out with,' she suddenly thought. 'Like all of us. Our faces, our bodies change, our manners, our hearts, but not our hands.

A medida que envejecían, las mujeres parecían volverse cada vez más masculinas, mientas que el señor Osmond, en cambio, se parecía cada día más a una vieja

There is no end," I said. "Only the beginning of something else.

Elizabeth Winthrop

In time the earth will be inhabited by almost god-like beings who shall analyze and discuss the remnants of humanity as we now discuss the chimpanzee.

That's what I love about vintage cookbooks," Ricky said. "They're an amazing window into how life was lived in past decades and how our eating habits have changed.