Evolution Quotes

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Change as change is mere flux and lapse; it insults intelligence. Genuinely to know is to grasp a permanent end that realizes itself through changes. — John Dewey
Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell
Man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. — Erich Fromm
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up. — George Bernard Shaw
All progress means war with society. — George Bernard Shaw
The greatest obstacle to progress is not man's inherited pugnacity, but his incorrigible tendency to parasitism. — William Ralph Inge
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best… — George Santayana
An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before. — Lucretius
The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great. — Oscar Wilde
I have been speculating last night what makes a man a discoverer of undiscovered things. As far as I can conjecture the art consists in… — Charles Darwin
When a scholar of the old culture vows no longer to have anything to do with men who believe in progress, he is right. For… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Catastrophes come when some dominant institution, swollen like a soap-bubble and still standing without foundations, suddenly crumbles at the touch of what may seem a… — George Santayana
The sure ways to create new ventures of discovery are to keep an open mind. — Charles Kettering
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war or carry arms,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The spirit is never at rest, but always engaged in progressive motion, giving itself new form. — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes. — Thomas Huxley
Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage. — Oscar Wilde
It is not enough to show people how to live better; there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show… — Marya Mannes

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