Quotes about Evolution
How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!
— Mark Twain
That man can interrogate as well as observe nature was a lesson slowly learned in his evolution.
— William Osler
No bird has ever uttered note That was not in some first bird's throat; Since Eden's freshness and man's fall No rose has been original.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Man was not breathed into the earth. Man came out of the earth.
— Joseph Campbell
History is littered with examples of men who would become gods, but only one example of God becoming Man.
— Albert Einstein
Whatever else may be said of man, this one thing is clear: He is not what he is capable of being.
— GK Chesterton
Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new, That which they have done but earnest of the things which they shall do.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
A man who says, 'I was wrong,' really in effect says, 'I am a little wiser today than I was yesterday.
— Charles Spurgeon
A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution.
— Mahatma Gandhi
One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.
— Mark Twain
The lives of men who have been always growing are strewed along their whole course with the things they have learned to do without.
— Phillips Brooks
From an evolutionary point of view, man has stopped moving, if he ever did move.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin