| Author |
Quotes |
| Benjamin Franklin King Jr | We seem to exist in a hazardous time, Driftin' along here through space; Nobody knows just when we begun, Or how fur we've gone in the race. |
| Charles R Darwin | I have called this principle, by which, each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection. |
| Charles R Darwin | The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. |
| Erasmus Darwin | Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same. |
| Herbert Spencer | Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. |
| Herbert Spencer | This survival of the fittest, which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." |
| John Banister Tabb | Out of the dusk a shadow, Then a spark; Out of the cloud a silence, Then a lark; Out of the heart a rapture, Then a pain; Out of the dead, cold ashes, Life again. |
| Langdon Smith | When you were a tadpole, and I was a fish, In the Palaeozoic time, And side by side in the sluggish tide We sprawled in the ooze and slime. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | The Lord let the house of a brute to the soul of a man, And the man said, "Am I your debtor?" And the Lord--"Not yet: but make it as clean as you can, And then I will let you a better." |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every people sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | When I was a shepherd on the plains of Assyria. |
| Lord Charles Neaves | Pouter, tumbler, and fantail are from the same source; The racer and hack may be traced to one Horse; So men were developed from monkeys of course, Which nobody can deny. |
| Lord Charles Neaves | I was at Euphorbus at the siege of Troy. |
| Mortimer Collins | There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist-- Then he was a Man and a Positivist. |
| Oliver Herford | Children, behold the Chimpanzee; He sits on the ancestral tree From which we sprang in ages gone. I'm glad we sprang: had we held on, We might, for aught that I can say, Be horrid Chimpanzees to-day. |
| William Ernest Henley | Or ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a king in Babylon And you were a Christian slave. |
| William Hazlitt | A mighty stream of tendency. |
| William Herbert Carruth | A fire-mist and a planet, A crystal and a cell, A jellyfish and a saurian, And caves where the cavemen dwell, Then a sense of law and beauty, And a face turned from the clod-- Some call it Evolution, And others call it God. |
| William Wordsworth | And hear the mighty stream of tendency Uttering, for elevation of our thought, A clear sonorous voice, inaudible To the vast multitude. |
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