Quotes about Evolution

Practice yourself in little things and thence proceed to greater.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Times change, and people change with the times—the wise ones do. Wisdom lies in knowing when to remember and when to forget. Consistency is not a habit of mind which it is wise to practice or to expect of the human race.

To say that that which was true in the 17th century cannot possibly be true today, because we travel in jet planes while they traveled in horse carts—is like saying that modern men do not need food, as men did in the past, because they are wearing trenchcoats and slacks, instead-of powdered wigs and hoop skirts.

The road we have taken to this point has not been easy. But then again the road to change never is.

Strange how a single conversation can change you. Or maybe it only seems that way in retrospect.

I don't worry about the survival of the novel. We're a storytelling species.

Justifying the past mattered less than planning what to do next.

History travels not only forwards; history can travel backwards, history can travel sideways.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

Modern people are just like ancient ones, only more numerous.

Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.