Sloth/evolution

Famous quotes containing the words sloth and/or evolution:

    “Bookworm, break this sloth urbane;
    A greater spirit bids thee forth
    Than the gray dreams which thee detain.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “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 (1903–1989)