Quotes about Evolution

A life form which can't adapt doesn't last very long.

I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life, the amoeba, each individual particle of which has to be joined to other particles to make a whole. Then

Everyone who's a success, is a continual learner.

I do not like to repeat successes I like to go on to other things.

A rose started off a bud, a bird started off an egg, and a forest started off a seed.

If the caterpillar could not see beyond his present state, he would never become a butterfly.

Stories do not end.

Not only had I got rid of the theology and the supernatural, but I had found the truth of evolution.

Tall oaks from little acorns grow.

Our minds, like our bodies, are in continual flux; something is hourly lost, and something acquired.

But what do we mean by the American Revolution? Do we mean the American war? The Revolution was effected before the war commenced. The Revolution was in the minds of the people; a change in their religious sentiments, of their duties and obligations.

And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you see.