Quotes about Evolution

The surest poison is time.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered you will never grow.

Wherever a man comes, there comes a revolution. The old is for slaves.

As no air-pump can by any means make a perfect vacuum, so neither can any artist entirely exclude the conventional, the local, the perishable from his book, or write a book of pure thought, that shall be as efficient, in all respects, to a remote posterity, as to contemporaries, or rather to the second age. Each age, it is found, must write its owns books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. The books of an older period will not fit this.

Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.

Heartily know, when half-gods go, the gods arrive.

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest degree. - Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

mankind is resilient: the atrocities that horrified us a week ago become acceptable tomorrow.

There are two kinds of pain: the pain of change and the pain of never changing and remaining the same.

No matter how much we know in any area there are always new things to learn and things we have previously learned that we need to be refreshed in.

I may not be where I need to be but at least I am not where I used to be.

We learn as we go, not as we sit idly by and do nothing.