Quotes about Evolution

As long ago as 1860 it was the proper thing to be born at home. At present, so I am told, the high gods of medicine have decreed that the first cries of the young shall be uttered upon the anesthetic air of a hospital, preferably a fashionable one.

A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.

Poetry is dying first. It'll be absorbed into prose sooner or later.

Modern life," began Amory again, "changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before—populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and—we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

Whatever worth while comes to you, won't be through the channels you were searching last year.

Can't repeat the past? why of course you can!

A man knows things and when he stops knowing things he's like anybody else, and the thing is to get power before he stops knowing things.

Modern life changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before...

Fashion is made to become unfashionable.

See failures as learning experiences, not character faults.

If I'm walking down the riverbank, and a man is drowning, even if I don't know how to swim very well, I feel this urge that the right thing to do is to try to save that person. Evolution would tell me exactly the opposite: preserve your DNA. Who cares about the guy who's drowning?

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.