Adaptation Quotes

I was persisting in reading my present environment in the light of my old one.

A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Someti...

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

Suicide is a form of murder— premeditated murder. It isn’t something you do the first time you think...

It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that tw...

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.

Yoga is the best way to learn to adapt and adjust to the changing environments.

I'm always amazed at the human capacity to not make fundamental changes, but instead merely adapt. I...

The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on an...

You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When ...

As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation...

That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.

Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.

I look at the world and I see absurdity all around me. People do strange things constantly, to the p...

How children adapt to available surfaces, using curbstones, stoops and manhole covers. How they take...

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his t...

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comfor...

Hugh Laurie (playing Mr. Palmer) felt the line 'Don't palm all your abuses [of language upon me]' wa...

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so w...

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, dan...

All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.

...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and...

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould

And since a more convincing argument could not be found—aside from a fatal accident or suicide—this ...