Charles Scott Sherrington Quote

Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.


Man on His Nature, Chapter V (p. 135), Doubleday Anchor Books. 1955


Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.

Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.

Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.

Nature, often as she hugs the old, seems seldom or never to revert to a past once abandoned.... Evolution can scrap but not revive.