Quotes About Evolution

I try to like the way the world is changing, but there seems to be no extra room for me inside.

Nature has no history.

What we call happening, no matter whether in a narrower or wider sense, is movement, a becoming-other, a becoming.

Some hominid species may persist for more than a million years, but not forever, and the same will probably be true of us. We are not part of an ongoing and unique surge towards human progress; we are finite components of a natural world that is changing and ephemeral.

At one end of the spectrum was the view that humans were on a path of improvement by historical action and unique invention. At the other end was the view that we, as much as other species in nature, were subject to the rough and tumble of global fluctuation and natural selection.

We ain't what we oughta be. We ain't what we want to be. We ain't what we gonna be. But, thank God, we ain't what we was.

The old guard in any society resents new methods, for old guards wear the decorations and medals won by waging battle in the accepted manner.

you will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile,laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you

You know there comes a time when time itself is ready for change.

No revolution is executed like a ballet. Its steps and gestures are not neatly designed and precisely performed.

All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.

In the Seventies, there was Queen's 'Bohemian Rhapsody', in the Eighties there was Duran Duran's 'Rio' and in the Nineties 'Runaway Train' by Soul Asylum. We're Coldplay and this is 'Yellow'.

In every life, there was death and rebirth and continuity.

But we can't change history. We can only try to improve what happens today and in our future.

Sometimes, he said, it is necessary to go back before we can move forward.

We can always do anything as long as we are alive. We can always change, grow, evolve into a far better version of ourselves. It is surely what life is for.

Sou todas as pessoas que já fui - esclareceu - e todas as experiências que vivi. Não tenho de fazer opções. Não tenho de renegar uma identidade para poder reclamar outra. Sou quem sou. In Uma noite de amor

No hay ningún estado que podamos alcanzar y mantener eternamente. Por desgracia

Si ricorda quello che dice Darwin della musica? Sostiene che la capacità di eseguirla e di apprezzarla esisteva nella razza umana molto prima che si arrivasse alla facoltà di parlare. Per questo, forse, la musica esercitava su di noi una sottile influenza.

For some reason altogether beyond our conception - and man may have been a mere accident, a by-product evolved in the process. It is as if the scum upon the surface of the ocean imagined that the ocean was created in order to produce and sustain it or a mouse in a cathedral thought that the building was its own proper ordained residence.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood. That's rather a broad idea, I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature

Recuerda usted lo que afirma Darwin sobre la música? Sostiene que la capacidad de producirla y de apreciarla existió en la raza humana mucho antes de que esta alcanzase la facultad de la palabra. Quizá sea esta la razón de que influya en nosotros de una manera tan sutil. Existen en nuestras almas confusos recuerdos de aquellos siglos nebulosos en que el mundo se hallaba en su niñez.

Recuerda usted lo que Darwin ha dicho acerca de la música? En su opinión, la facultad de producir y apreciar una armonía data en la raza humana de mayor antigüedad que el uso del lenguaje. Acaso sea ésta la causa de que influya en nosotros de manera tan sutil. Perviven en nuestras almas recuerdos borrosos de aquellos siglos en que el mundo se hallaba aún en su niñez

turned over a new leaf