Quotes About Evolution

Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.

Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

A person can't change all at once.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

I changed it. I had to. Do you know why? She studied him, her eyes grave. Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

No great thing is created suddenly.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just Ã¢â'¬Â¦ come out the other side. Or you don't.

Maybe people really don't change as much as we think. Maybe they just... maybe they just stiffen up.

Sooner or later, everything old is new again.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.

Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present.

It was strange how some of childhood's words and ways fell at the wayside and were left behind, while others clamped tight and rode for life, growing the heavier to carry as time passed.

Like shit, change happens.

Things conceived by minds and made by hands can never be quite the same, even if they try their best to be identical, because they're never the same from day to day or even moment to moment.