Quotes About Evolution

To my mind the whole push and thrust and development of the world is towards the more complex, the flexible, the open-minded, the ability to entertain many ideas, sometimes contradictory ones, in one's mind at the same time.

It seems to me that ideas must flow through humanity like tides.

To hold in one's mind that a central transforming force is always at work in the world - the force of evolution itself - enables one to see that a person may be learning while not knowing he is doing so.

Because if what we think now is different from what we thought then, we can take it for granted that what we think in a year will be different again. Or even a month the way my thoughts are changing at the moment. Your thoughts are the last thing you can rely on.

Ci siamo mai chiesti quali cambiamenti si determinarono nel nostro cervello quando la gente cominciò a leggere invece di ascoltare?

This may be animal behaviour, I don't know, but it is certainly human behaviour, when humans allow themselves to revert to barbarism, and has been for thousands, probably even millions of years -- depending on where one decides to put the beginning of our history as humans, not animals.

The world is a new place, but it still needs to be remade. We still need revolutionaries.

The board is clearing. The old game is almost played, and the pieces broken.

He is not immutable. No man can be.

Unlike Kate, this girl had broken from her setting. All that Kate was, she now had. And standing on Kate's shoulders, something more, still growing; blossoming and yet to fruit. All that he was not.

the problems changed, but people were the same

Books, you know, Charles, are like lobster-shells. We surround ourselves with 'em, and then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidences of our earlier stages of development.

In my day one had to have either brains or beauty to get on -- preferably both. Nowadays nothing seems to be required but a total lack of figure.

I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.

There's no sense in trying to fight the last war but one.

Every love's the love before In a duller dress.

This isn't my head I've got on now. I think this is something that used to belong to Walt Whitman.

There is less genetic variation in the entire human race than in a typical wild population of chimpanzees.

Because the children of two people from different races were fertile, Buffon's rule meant that all human beings belonged to the same species.

Relationships do not remain static and what might have been satisfying to them both in the past sufficed no longer.

There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same again.

First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.