
“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 231
Commenting on surrealist H. R. Giger. [Martin, Douglas, H. R. Giger, Swiss Artist, Dies at 74; His Vision Gave Life to ‘Alien’ Creature, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/arts/h-r-giger-swiss-artist-dies-at-74-his-vision-gave-life-to-alien-creature.html, 14 May 2014, New York Times, 14 May 2014]
“Evolution tells us where we came from, not where we can go.”
Source: Why Evolution is True (2009), p. 231
Quoted in Ruysbroeck the Admirable (1925) by Alfred Wautier d'Aygalliers and Fred Rothwell, p. 175
“Our histories cling to us. We are shaped by where we come from.”
“Go where we may, rest where we will,
Eternal London haunts us still.”
As quoted by The Guardian, Justin Trudeau rules out burkini ban in Canada https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/23/justin-trudeau-rules-out-burkini-ban-in-canada (23 August 2016).
2016
“It is not where we have come from but where we are going that counts!”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 193