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Evolution: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.— MARCUS AURELIUS — Meditations. Ch. IV. 36.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.— CHARLES DARWIN — The Origin of

Species. Chap. III. 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.— ERASMUS DARWIN — Botanic Garden. Pt. I. Canto IV. L. 389.

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."— HERBERT SPENCER — Principles of

Biology. Indirect Equilibration. Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 200.

Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall Sixty Years After. L. 198

Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change.— TENNYSON — Locksley Hall. L. 182.

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."— TENNYSON — By an Evolutionist.