Quotes about Evolution

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

Each day was called a generation, because that in it God generated, or produced, some new portion of his work.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

if you always do what you have always done, then you will always get what you have always got. Extreme measures are sometimes called for, and these measures sometimes even produce results.