Quotes about Evolution

Everything is only for a day, both that which remembers and that which is remembered. Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the universe loves nothing so much as to change things which are and to make new things like them. For everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

As the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.

When he speaks of death as a necessary change, and points out that nothing useful and profitable can be brought about without change

There is a river of creation, and time is a violent stream. As soon as one thing comes into sight, it is swept past and another is carried down: it too will be taken on its way.

But the adjectives change," said Jimmy. "Nothing's worse than last year's adjectives.

We were revisionists; what we revised was ourselves.

So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to do anything with.

Think of an adaptation, any adaptation, and some animal somewhere will have thought of it first.

I think the biggest innovations of the 21st century will be at the intersection of biology and technology. A new era is beginning.

Technology alone is not enough.