Quotes about Evolution

To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable contrivances . . . could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, ABSURD in the highest possible degree.

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.

Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

To dismantle the system that sustains civilization is very difficult and takes time, but we are achieving it, bit by bit. The complex and fascinating task of inventing a new order to replace it is long.

Wherever we are, it is but a stage on the way to somewhere else, and whatever we do, however well we do it, it is only a preparation to do something else that shall be different.

Everything changes but change itself.

Change is the law of life.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.

The old order changeth, yielding place to new.