Quotes About Adaptation

rabbits have white tails in order that it be easy for us to shoot them.

I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.

La inteligencia se caracteriza por la capacidad de adaptarse a los cambios. La inteligencia humana es el resultado de muchas generaciones de selección natural, de aquellos con la capacidad de adaptarse a circunstancias cambiantes. No debemos temer el cambio. Tenemos que hacer que funcione a nuestro favor.

One has to be grown up enough to realize that life is not fair. You just have to do the best you can in the situation you are in.

It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage.

Una limitación y un peligro aún mayores para las generaciones futuras son que todavía tenemos instintos, y en particular los impulsos agresivos, que tuvimos en los días del hombre de las cavernas.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Cada vez que observamos novos experimentos coincidirem com as previsões, a teoria sobrevive e nossa confiança nela aumenta; porém, se em algum momento uma nova observação a contradiz, temos de abandonar a teoria ou modificá-la. Pelo

We must not fear change. We need to make it work to our advantage.

Extenderse al espacio tendrá un efecto aún mayor. Cambiará completamente el futuro de la especie humana, y tal vez determinará que tengamos o no algún futuro. No resolverá ninguno de nuestros problemas inmediatos en el planeta Tierra, pero nos proporcionará una nueva perspectiva sobre ellos y hará que miremos hacia fuera en lugar de hacia dentro. Con suerte, nos unirá para enfrentar el desafío común.

Uns bleibt keine Zeit, darauf zu warten, dass die darwinistische Evolution aus uns intelligentere und gutartige Wesen macht...Wir werden in der Lage sein, unsere DNA selbst zu verändern und zu verbessern.

I lost my voice, but I can still speak thanks to my voice synthesizer

A inteligência é a capacidade de se adaptar à mudança.

the darkness, however, there are quiet changes.

the nonconformism of complete conformism:

Alter any event, ever so slightly and without apparent importance at the time, and evolution cascades into radically different channel.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

Por qué el origen de la vida pluricelular se dio en forma de un corto pulso a través de tres faunas radicalmente diferentes , y no como un aumento lento y continuo de complejidad? La historia de la vida es infinitamente fascinante, infinitamente curiosa, pero ciertamente no es la sustancia de nuestros pensamientos y esperanzas usuales.

Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.

Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado.

We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.

This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.