Jean Rostand Quotes

To change with change is the changeless state

There is nothing so stable as change.

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

Change alone is unchanging.

For me, the key to longevity - and immortality, in a sense - has to do with transformation.

Everything changes but change.

Change is the cliché of our time. It also happens to be the prevailing truth.

Things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay

Evolution is like walking on a rolling barrel. The walker isn't so much interested in where the barrel is going as he is in keeping on top of it.

Everything passes, only truth remains.

The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

Things change, but they stay the same.

Every day things change, but basically they stay the same.

That competition and the struggle for existence is the mechanism behind this state of perpetual change.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

The great thing about the business is how Darwinian it is. We have to swim or die - if you are found wanting over a period of time, you've either got to change what you're doing or find something else to do.

Change is the one thing we can be sure of.

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

The truth doesn't change. It was the same when Moses got the Ten Commandments as it is today. That's the thing about the truth. That's the thing about real. It doesn't change and it doesn't have to change. Now you can put it in a different book, but it's still real. It's still the truth.

Technology changes all the time; human nature, hardly ever.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

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.

I don't change. The things around me change.