Quotes about Evolution

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

If they'd thought a bit more about biological evolution and spent less time cooking up nutty theories they might have uncovered a few simple truths.

And besides, look at elder flowers and bluebells-they are a sign that pure creation takes place - even the butterfly. But humanity never gets beyond the caterpillar stage -it rots in the chrysalis, it never will have wings.It is anti-creation, like monkeys and baboons.

She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

Paul felt life changing around him. The conditions of youth were gone.

If you are satisfied with the results you are now getting, why change? If you are not satisfied, why not experiment?

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.

When going back makes sense, you are going ahead.

Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.

Change is hard at the beginning. Messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.