Quotes about Evolution

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.

One of the problems with compromise in one area of Scripture is where do you stop compromising? If Christians accept the idea of human evolution, then why not accept the idea that our sinful tendencies are really just evolved tendencies?

To say that Christ is the term and motive force of evolution, to say that he manifests himself as 'evolver,' is implicitly to recognize that he becomes attainable in and through the whole process of evolution.