Quotes About Evolution

Once introduced into this world, life would never leave--there was no end to the explosive, consuming, voracious lust of long chain molecules to link and match and make of themselves yet more and more and again more.

INTRODUCTION The very acute and lively Spanish critic who signs himself Clarin, and is known personally as Don Leopoldo Alas, says the present Spanish novel has no yesterday, but only a day-before-yesterday.

In a progressive country change is constant change is inevitable.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

the past wastes no time becoming the past, all right.

thought. Successionism means that one faith can replace a previous one that has ceased to function. In religious terms, it is comparable to what Darwin would later postulate in the theory of evolution: the dinosaurs were replaced by the Neanderthals who were in turn replaced by fully developed Homo sapiens.

Evolution and creationism both require faith. It's just a matter of where you choose to place that faith.

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant.

Man must ever be the slave of routine: but in old days it was a routine of great thoughts, and now it is a routine of little ones.

Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

The heterodoxy of one age will become the orthodoxy of the next.

It is a mistaken notion that all spiritual truth was given to the world in one complete system nearly 2000 years ago.

When you're finished changing, you're finished.

What has become clear to you since we last met?

All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable and those who move.

When you are finished changing, you're finished.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on.

We may make these times better, if we better ourselves.

Americans are getting stronger. Twenty years ago, it took two people to carry ten dollars' worth of groceries. Today, a five-year-old can do it. —Henny Youngman

If kittens turn into cats why don't puppies turn into paps?

It's not surprising, therefore, that the [Bisy] Backson thinks of progress in terms of fighting and overcoming. One of his little idiosyncrasies, you might say. Of course, real progress involves growing and developing, which involves changing inside, but that's something the inflexible Backson is unwilling to do.