Dan Simmons Quotes

We are not evolved but evolving.

The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations.

This is what evolution means--ordered progress; development from poorer to richer, from lower to higher, from less to greater--progress. In the material universe, progress to higher forms; in the moral universe, progress to higher life.

Evolution is the most popular way we have for dealing with change.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

The study of evolution is an evolution in itself.

Progress is the attraction that moves humanity.

Life is a process of evolution.

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Human beings and their actions constitute the advancing front, the surging crest of an ongoing movement that never stops.

You know, Darwin said through natural selection things go gradually, and he was talking about pigeon's evolution or horses evolving, getting faster. But in fact if you look at evolution on a bigger scale, cosmic evolution and you look at culture evolution you see it jumps, it goes through phase changes, and that's very exciting.

My fear is that in general terms the evolution of the political process proceeds at the same pace as the evolution of the species and I do not myself believe that that is quite fast enough

What humans can't engineer, evolution can.

With highly civilized nations, continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes. Nevertheless the more intelligent members within the same community will succeed better in the long run than the inferior, and leave a more numerous progeny, and this is a form of natural selection.

One of the effects of civilization is to diminish the rigor of the application of the law of natural selection. It preserves weakly lives that would have perished in barbarous lands.

We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

Evolution is all about looking forward.

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

Evolution is as much a fact as the heat of the sun.

Choice is the engine of our evolution.

Darwin was as much of an emancipator as was Lincoln.

We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

The equation of evolution with progress represents our strongest cultural impediment to a proper understanding of this greatest biological revolution in the history of human thought.