#evolution

The revolutionary Mozart is the Mozart of his last eight years. ↗

— Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#his #last #mozart #revolutionary #years

I was probably the only revolutionary referred to as cute. ↗

— Abbie Hoffman

#i #only #probably #referred #revolutionary

The idea that one can go to the fossil record and expect to empirically recover an ancestor-descendant sequence, be it of species, genera, families, or whatever, has been, and continues to be, a pernicious illusion. ↗

— Gareth J. Nelson

#darwin #darwinism #evolution #fossil-record #fossils

De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#consistent #history #revolutionary #sade

I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#evolution #fashion #history #i #i believe

When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble. ↗

— Mark Hyman

#becomes #eat #food #real #revolutionary

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#democratic #democratic system #different #go #i

We can continue to try and clean up the gutters all over the world and spend all of our resources looking at just the dirty spots and trying to make them clean. Or we can lift our eyes up and look into the skies and move forward in an evolutionary way. ↗

— Buzz Aldrin

#clean up #continue #dirty #evolutionary #eyes

I mean to say, we all sprang from humble origins. Goodness gracious, who would have thought that a species of monkey would take over the kingdom of the world. … I cannot help but feel that the monkey was not a good choice. Surely one of the cat family would have been much more satisfactory. They have a much less emotional approach to life. ("The Shadmock") ↗

— R. Chetwynd-Hayes

#evolution #monkeys #family

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776. ↗

— Susan B. Anthony

#discontent #greater #men #nation #rebellion