Quotes About Transition

The Earth is the cradle of Humanity. But one doesn't always live in the cradle.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

I believe in evolution in the sense that a short-tempered man is the successor of a crybaby.

The certainties of one age are the problems of the next.

The science of genetics is in a transition period, becoming an exact science just as the chemistry in the times of Lavoisier, who made the balance an indispensable implement in chemical research.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

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

Science advances funeral by funeral

Twenty years ago many chemists would have defended the theory of bond arms as a satisfactory explanation because they had become accustomed to thinking of it as unique and as ultimate.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

When science drove the gods out of nature, they took refuge in poetry and the porticos of civic buildings.

Religion ends and philosophy begins, just as alchemy ends and chemistry begins, and astrology ends and astronomy begins.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

We leave this life the same way that we enter it, totally alone, bereft.

Where do I go from here? She thought to herself.Truth was, it didn't matter.She had a new beginning.

Life without death simply isn't life, but death

Last century's magic is this year's science.

There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends.

Why aren't you smiling?" Cameron asks. She picks up the Astropad and stops the video."Because this is the beginning, not the end.

Are you afraid?""Yes.""Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms.""I am still afraid.