There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to ma

There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. You forget, said the Devil, with a chuckle, that I have been evolving too. – W. R. [William Ralph] Inge

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God created a number of possibilities in case some of his prototypes failed — that is the meaning of evolution. – Graham Greene

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Evolution has developed man to such a high degree that he builds zoos to keep his ancestors in cages. – Source Unknown

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Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. – Konrad Lorenz

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Darwinian man, though well-behaved, at best is only a monkey shaved. – W. S. Gilbert

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