Quotes about Evolution

When a story demands transformation, you are much more likely to transform.

Finally, when I finished rambling, he said, "Don, all relationships are teleological." I asked him what the word teleological meant. "It means they're going somewhere," Al said. "All relationships are living and alive and moving and becoming something.

Every human being is on a transformational journey.

His conclusion was that the human body displayed physical evidence that we are not the same person we were when we were kids, or even a season before. He said we think we are the same person, but we aren't. "People get stuck, thinking they are one kind of person, but they aren't.

You put your characters through hell. You put them through hell. That's the only way we change.

The biologist Edwin Conklin, speaking of evolution, stated that the probability of life originating by accident is "comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary originating from an explosion in a print shop." That sounds very unscientific, coming from a scientist, but it's true.

The theistic evolutionist considers the days in Genesis as periods of time, long periods of time. I do not believe that is true. God's marking off the creative days with the words, "And the evening and the morning were the first day," etc., makes it clear that He was not referring to long periods of time but to actual twenty-four hour days.

It gets harder all the time, Bev Shaw once said. Harder, yet easier. One gets used to things getting harder; one ceases to be surprised that what used to be hard as hard can be grows harder yet.

If you keep on doing what you've always done, you'll keep on getting what you've always got.

Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different than it was before.

Rewriting the go-to scripts is one of the most crucial steps toward permanent progress.

A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.