Quotes About Evolution

what is thought now, and held to be universal truth, was not thought then, or true of that time.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

What is not hereditary cannot be permanent.

He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions.

What people always demand of a popular novelist is that he shall write the same book over and over again, forgetting that a man who would write the same book twice could not even write it once. Any writer who is not utterly lifeless moves upon a kind of parabola, and the downward curve is implied in the upward one.

Why should one feel it to be intolerable unless one had some kind of ancestral memory that things had one been different?

Nonsense. The earth is as old as we are, no older. How could it be older? Nothing exists except through human consciousness.' 'But the rocks are full of the bones of extinct animals—mammoths and mastodons and enormous reptiles which lived here long before man was ever heard of.

Certainly it was his own face, but it seemed to him that it had changed more than he had change inside. The emotions it registered would be different from the ones he felt.

La historia era un palimpsesto, borrado y reescrito tantas veces como fuese necesario.

Sooner or later it would happen: strength would change into consciousness.

Has it ever occurred to you [...] that by the year 2050...not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

It needs some very great disaster, such as prolonged subjugation by a foreign enemy, to destroy a national culture. The Stock Exchange will be pulled down, the horse plough will give way to the tractor, the country houses will be forgotten, but England will still be England, an everlasting animal stretching into the future and the past and like all living things, having the power to change out of recognition and yet remain the same.

A machine evolves by becoming more efficient, that is, more foolproof; hence the objective of mechanical progress is a foolproof world—which may or may not mean a world inhabited by fools.

By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.

For a few days after getting into the water the toad concentrates on building up his strength by eating small insects. Presently he has swollen to his normal size again, and then he goes through a phase of intense sexiness.

Pourquoi avait-il du mal à supporter la vie actuelle, si ce n'est qu'il y avait une sorte de souvenir ancestral d'une époque où tout était différent ?

The Hate continued exactly as before, except that the target had been changed.

Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?

Theosophy was both a philosophy and a religion, preaching the doctrine of reincarnation as well as spiritual evolution.

Man has been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise.

Men have been growing more stupid for several thousand years; I myself shall waste no tears at his demise'- old British man in Earth Abides

Therefore, I urge all men to be in the front rank of progress and not to stand still, lest they be left behind.