Quotes About Evolution

Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that that skin what what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno.

Ä°nsan, yüzü k?zaran ya da k?zarmas? gereken tek hayvand?r.

Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld.

A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.

Adam is fading out. It is on account of Darwin and that crowd. I can see that he is not going to last much longer. There's a plenty of signs. He is getting belittled to a germ—a little bit of a speck that you can't see without a microscope powerful enough to raise a gnat to the size of a church. ('The Refuge of the Derelicts' collected in Mark Twain and John Sutton Tuckey, The Devil's Race-Track: Mark Twain's Great Dark Writings (1980), 340-41. - 1980)

It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

your lip, says he. You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down

If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.

Yes, I am of old family, and not illiterate. I am a fossil.   A which?   Fossil. The first horses were fossils. They date back two million years.

Such incidents usually move me to try to find relief in the building of a maxim. It is a good way, because if you have luck you can get the venom out of yourself and into the maxim; then comfort and a healed spirit follow. Maxims are not easy to make; they do not come in right shape at the first call; they are creatures of evolution, of development; you have to try several plans before you get one that suits you, or even comes fairly near to suiting you.

It isn't as it used to be in the old times. Then everybody traveled by steamboat, everybody drank, and everybody treated everybody else. 'Now most everybody goes by railroad, and the rest don't drink.

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

At the beginning of that interval a type-machine was a curiosity. The person who owned one was a curiosity, too. But now it is the other way about: the person who doesn't own one is a curiosity.

I believe our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey

When did the r disappear from Southern speech, and how did it come to disappear? The custom of dropping it was not borrowed from the North, nor inherited from England.

If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like.

Bóg stworzyÅ' czÅ'owieka, poniewa? rozczarowaÅ' siÄ™ maÅ'pÄ…. Z dalszych eksperymentów zrezygnowaÅ'.

History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.

Si los gatos y los hombres se cruzasen, ganaría mucho la raza humana y perdería mucho la gatuna

Consider the three years sped. Now look around on England. A happy and prosperous country, and strangely altered. Schools everywhere, and several colleges; a number of pretty good newspapers. Even authorship was taking a start; Sir Dinadan the Humorist was first in the field, with a volume of gray-headed jokes which I had been familiar with during thirteen centuries.

It is a shame that we must continue to use a worthless system because it was good a thousand years ago.

Unoccupied space will never cease to change simply because nothing forbids it to do so.