Quotes About Adaptation

Wow, so much to learn!" said Volant the eagle. "Fish-eating bats, pale bats, bats with little ears, bats with long noses, bats with noses that look like leaves… Next thing you know, you're going to tell me there are bats that drink blood like vampires!" "There are those, indeed, as well," said Sully the Leaf-nosed bat.

i always like trying to catch a bus in a new city wondering how will i know which one to take and simply deciding this one as it pulls up and looking at the natives looking at me and getting off at the end wondering where the hell i am and how will i get back.

We don't have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

killing rats wasn't in my job description.

One of the keys to success is taking every experience life brings you and repackaging it in a way that empowers you and helps you move forward.

was all about adapting to the new technology on the market.

no matter how bad a situation may seem, we can learn from it and assign a new meaning to it that moves us closer to our goals.

Often, scholars distinguish between complex systems—systems in which the entities follow fixed rules—and complex adaptive systems—systems in which the entities adapt. If the entities adapt, then the system has a greater capacity to respond to changes in the environment.

diverse, connected, interdependent entities whose behavior is determined by rules, which may adapt, but need not. The interactions of these entities often produce phenomena that are more than the parts. These phenomena are called emergent.

Systems that produce complexity consist of diverse rule-following entities whose behaviors are interdependent. Those entities interact over a contact structure or network. In addition, the entities often adapt.

Genetics might be adequate for explaining microevolution, but microevolutionary changes in gene frequency were not seen as able to turn a reptile into a mammal or to convert a fish into an amphibian. Microevolution looks at adaptations that concern the survival of the fittest, not the arrival of the fittest... The origin of species — Darwin's problem — remains unsolved.

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they simply would have said a faster horse. —attributed to Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Your

Man's noblest endowment is his capacity to change.

Years of drought and famine come…and the climate is not changed with dance, libation, or prayer." —John Wesley Powell

Caterpillars can fly, if they just lighten up.

When the sky's falling, I take shelter under bullshit.

But you didn't die." "Clever lad, to deduce that from such slender evidence after living with me for just three years.

Oh gods, Jean. Take a false name wherever we end up. Tavrin Callas is good. Let the bastard pop up all over the place.

Ha! Yes. When anyone tells you habits die hard, Locke, they're lying—it seems they never die at all.

Sad day, my loves, a proper tragedy. But when the milk's gone bad you might as well look forward to cheese, hmm?

Well, cheer up. At least you've got more mobility than a fucking tadpole on dry land.

Get used to gaps in your comprehension," said Sabetha. "The rest of us certainly have.

Thusfar today, we've lost a ship, a small fortune, your hatchets, and now your optics." "At least our setbacks are getting progressively smaller.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty. The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.