Quotes about Evolution

Archer looked down with wonder at the familiar spectacle. It surprised him that life should be going on in the old way when his own reactions to it had so completely changed.

Life has a way of overgrowing its achievements as well as its ruins.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation. All we can do, and that human wisdom can do, is to provide that the change shall proceed by insensible degrees. This has all the benefits which may be in change, without any of the inconveniences of mutation.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

I don't know the weapons that will be used in the Third World War, but in the Forth men will use wood and stones

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

We can't solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

Man is the result of slow growth; that is why he occupies the position he does in animal life. What does a pup amount to that has gained its growth in a few days or weeks, beside a man who only attains it in as many years.

I feel like I'm wasting time if I repeat myself.

It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than watch it accumulate.