Quotes about Evolution

Society may no longer define marriage in the only way marriage has ever been defined in the annals of recorded history. Many societies allowed polygamy, many allowed child marriages, some allowed marriage within families; but none, in thousands of years, defined marriage as the union of people of the same sex.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.

An acorn is an oak tree inside out.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

Every season, for me, it's like starting from scratch again.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.