Edmund Beecher Wilson quotes

Edmund Beecher Wilson quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.”
-- Edmund Beecher Wilson

#Dynasty Quotes #Evolution Quotes #Scales Quotes

“I ended up getting a lion chain. I had to make my own mascot - I want to start my own dynasty eventually.”
“I just remember I wanted to make my own dynasty and not keep following trends. I wanted to make my own.”
“I don't like dynasty and legacy. But I think there's a period in the U.S. history where Bushes have been in the forefront.”
“Coaches who let a championship team back off from becoming a dynasty are cowards.”
“Evolution of mankind is paralleled by the increase and expansion of consciousness.”
“History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul”

Source : "Sculpting in Time" by Andrei Tarkovsky, (p. 57), 1986.
“The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less.”
“I never had any big dreams about doing something on a huge scale.”
“History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.”
“Our individual life is brief, and perhaps the whole life of mankind will be brief if measured in astronomical scale”

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