Quotes About Evolution

Even when a writer seems to be out of touch with the spirit of the age or voluntarily hostile to it, he will usually be found to represent either an underground current of opposition or the rising tide of tomorrow beating on the crumbling cliffs of yesterday.

the orange circle faded to a coiled spring of dully glowing grey.

The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and more slowly does it mature.

Mankind is growing out of religion as out of its childhood clothes. - On Religion

Before you take anything away you must have something better to put in its place.

Para conducir al hombre a un estado mejor, no bastaría con ponerle en un mundo mejor, sino que seria preciso de toda necesidad transformarle totalmente, hacer de modo que no sea lo que es y que llegara a ser lo que no es.

Hay épocas en que el progreso es reaccionario, y lo reaccionario es progresista.

Quanto mais nobre e perfeita é uma coisa, tanto mais tarde e mais lentamente ela atinge a maturidade.

All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed; Second, it is violently opposed; and Third, it is accepted as self-evident.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Suddenly, they become the bleached bones of a story.

When she looked at him now, she couldn't help thinking that the man he had become bore so little resemblance to the boy he had been. His smile was the only piece of baggage he had carried with him from boyhood into manhood.

When you recreate the image of man, why repeat God's mistakes?

Dear Doctor, If you like you can change every inch of me. I'm just a story.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

We need an updated insurance plan against our won basic natures

India lives in several centuries at the same time.

Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.

There was no trace of the slim, attractive girl that she had been.

Biology designed the dance. Terror timed it.

Later became a horrible, menacing, goose-bumpy word.

sometime over the last several decades—and it is only over the last several decades—science has filled in enough knowledge to make ineptitude as much our struggle as ignorance.

We are a species that evolved to survive starvation, not resist abundance

The body's decline creeps like a vine. Day to day, the changes can be imperceptible. You adapt. Then something happens that finally makes it clear that things are no longer the same.

Human birth...is a solution to an evolutionary problem: how a mammal can walk upright, which requires a small, fixed, bony pelvis, and also possess a large brain, which entails a baby whose head is too big to fit through that small pelvis...in a sense, all human mothers give birth prematurely. Other mammals are born mature enough to walk and seek food within hours; our newborns are small and helpless for months.