Quotes About Adaptation

nothing is impossible. you just need to learn how to bend the rules.

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over.

New York City had a short memory for violence

He had reached an age where he found the best way to deal with unpleasantness was to pretend it didn't exist.

our brains did not evolve to help us comprehend the true meaning of things, only to understand their mechanical workings. Knowing the true meaning of reality does not contribute to one's ability to survive, and thus this kind of understanding was not addressed by evolution.

She created a new world for herself. It blew my mind to see this animal acquire language. And then literally reshape her world with it.

The ability to have sex gives leishmania a tremendous evolutionary advantage. It is the main reason it has thrived and spread for a hundred million years, infecting dinosaurs and people, becoming one of the most successful diseases (from its own point of view) in the world.

He stepped back to let Pendergast do his thing, but he was surprised to see the agent not going through his usual rigmarole, with the test tubes and tweezers and loupes appearing out of nowhere and interminable fussing around.

No!" was a constant refrain in our house after Jennie arrived. Hugo told me I used to shout it in my sleep!

The Maya created a vibrant and brilliant society that, in the end, failed to adjust to a changing environment and the needs of its people;

We compared the domesticated dog with the hyena

Don't live in the past—you will know what you've lost but not what you've found?

Sometimes, a society can see its end approaching from afar and still not be able to adapt, like the Maya; at other times, the curtain drops without warning and the show is over. No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including ours, is exempt from the universal fate.

Mary and Joseph," he said, "turned a very embarrassing situation into one of the greatest coups in history. Clever, clever, clever!

There can be no doubt: life is a miraculous thing, and even more miraculous is human intelligence. Our world, this earth, is a surpassingly beautiful place, perfectly suited to our needs. It is as if the world were created for us, so perfect is it. But this is an illusion; in fact, we were created for the world. The world is just right for us because we've been adapting to it for millions of years.

The wave changed instantly by rock; the rock changed by the wave returning over and over.

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.

He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.

Don't cry over spilt milk.

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

In trying to please all, he had pleased none.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

Though the lion and the antelope happen to live in the same forest, the antelope still has time to grow up. - Cape Coast, Ghana.