Quotes About Evolution

Românii au tr?it o mie de ani ca plantele.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell.

History is irony on the move.

I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand years. And even harder, a dialogue that will occur in not ten thousand but even a thousand years from now.

În cadrul naÅ£iunii, democraÅ£ia a dat naÅŸtere unei pluralit??i de formaÅ£ii divergente, care r?pesc evoluÅ£iei naÅ£ionale un sens convergent.

The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on.

our past so quickly stops being "ours" and turns into history, something which no longer concerns anyone.

Meeting, after several years, someone we used to know as a child, the first glance almost always suggests that some great disaster must have befallen him

It seems very strange that one must turn back, and be transported to the very beginnings of history, in order to arrive at an understanding of humanity as it is at present.

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

These young people naturally grow up with ideas different from ours, for they are born for times when we shall no longer be here

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past

What is most evident is not the difficulty of getting a fixed law, but getting out of a fixed law; not of cementing ... a cake of custom, but of breaking the cake of custom; not of making the first preservative habit, but of breaking through it, and reaching something better.

The work of nature in making generations is a patchwork—part resemblance, part contrast.

If A kills B before B kills A, then A survives, and the human race is a race of A's.

The best mode of comprehending the nature of the two Governments, is to look at a country in which the two have within a comparatively short space of years succeeded each other.

At any rate, the pre-historic times were spent in making men capable of writing a history, and having something to put in it when it is written, and we can see how it was done.

Everything changes; the old world—-the classical civilization of form and definition—passes away, a new world of free spirit and inward growth emerges; between the two lies a mixed weltering interval of trouble and confusion.

Probably if we had historic records of the ante-historic ages—if some superhuman power had set down the thoughts and actions of men ages before they could set them down for themselves—we should know that this first step in civilization was the hardest step. But when we come to history as it is, we are more struck with the difficulty of the next step.

Our habitual instructors, our ordinary conversation, our inevitable and ineradicable prejudices tend to make us think that "Progress" is the normal fact in human society, the fact which we should expect to see, the fact which we should be surprised if we did not see. But history refutes this. The ancients had no conception of progress; they did not so much as reject the idea; they did not even entertain the idea.

In a thousand cases—in the great majority of cases—the progress of mankind has been arrested in this its earliest shape; it has been closely embalmed in a mummy-like imitation of its primitive existence.

The dinosaur is for most people the epitome of extinctness, the prototype of an animal so maladapted to a changing environment that it dies out, leaving fossils but no descendants.

The dinosaurs are not extinct. The colorful and successful diversity of the living birds is a continuing expression of basic dinosaur biology.