Quotes about Evolution

The Law of Divine Compensation posits that this is a self-organizing and self-correcting universe: the embryo becomes a baby, the bud becomes a blossom, the acorn becomes an oak tree. Clearly, there is some invisible force that is moving every aspect of reality to its next best expression.

The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The modern university looks forward, and is a factory of new knowledge.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Yesterday woman was a chattel. Now she is, in law, a minor. Tomorrow she will be free, or partially so--that is to say, as free as man.

It is not the size of a seed, but the size of what rises from it.

An acorn is an oak tree inside out.

What you endured was a sign of what you would become.

Small steps add up to complete big journeys.

I don't know if I'm more confident than ever before, because I definitely had confidence when I was starting out. Maybe I have less confidence now that I did then.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it.

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.