Quotes about Evolution

Half of learning is learning. The other half of learning is unlearning.

Even when the laws have been written down, they ought not always remain unchanged.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.' That's a rather broad idea,' I remarked. One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature,' he answered.

Anything is better than stagnation.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met. What could his sling, his throwing-stick, or his arrow avail him against such forces as have been loose tonight? Even with a modern rifle it would be all odds on the monster.

Do you remember what Darwin says about music? He claims that the power of producing and appreciating it existed among the human race long before the power of speech was arrived at. Perhaps that is why we are so subtly influenced by it. There are vague memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.

It was surely well for man that he came late in the order of creation. There

There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.

This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.