Quotes About Adaptation

you have to run as fast as you can just to stay in the same place.

It is a truism of biology that evolution is conservative.

The Dutch prepare their dikes for the worst storm in ten thousand years. Had New Orleans followed that example, no tragedy would have occurred. It's not that no one knew.

The human race has been dealing with loss and death forever. We are the descendants of those who could manage it.

Por definición, nuestros patrones habituales de acción solo bastan para cosas y situaciones de determinada significación: solo sabemos como actuar en presencia de lo que nos es familiar. La aparición de lo inesperado nos saca de la complacencia inconsciente, axiomática, y nos obliga (dolorosamente) a pensar.

Some things change quickly, but they are nested within other things that change less quickly.

Lo desconocido es el enemigo eterno del Homo Sapiens y su mayor amigo, que desafía constantemente la facilidad individual para la adaptación y la representación, que empuja constantemente a hombres y mujeres mayores profundidades y hacia cimas más altas.

La aceptación de la información anómala aporta terror y posibilidad, revolución y transformación. El rechazo del hecho insoportable asfixia la adaptación y estrangula la vida.

A voluntary death-and-rebirth transformation—the change necessary to adapt when terrible things emerge—is therefore a solution to the potentially fatal rigidity of erroneous certainty, excessive order, and stultification.

Your mother's recipe for fish heads and rice, no matter how celebrated in her village of origin, doesn't cut it in these days of grapefruit foam and Scotch/tobacco ice-cream.

People exchange information about how to act in many ways. They observe each other and imitate what they see. When they imitate, they use their bodies to represent the bodies of others. But this imitation is not mindless, automatized mimicry. It is instead the ability to identify regularities or patterns in the behavior of other people, and then to imitate those patterns.

Change might be opportunity, instead of disaster.

That was so not fair. My life was perfectly fine until suddenly I had this live-in boyfriend who wanted to interact with me, and I realized that I was almost always high.

A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are.

For one thing, we're doing publishing wrong.

basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn't object.

the interesting thing about the slime mold is that it makes pretty good decisions.

Nonlinear thinking means which way you should go depends on where you already are. This insight isn't new.

The past is not necessarily what it was, even though it has already been. The present is chaotic and indeterminate. The ground shifts continually around her feet, and ours. Equally, the future, not yet here, changes into something it was not supposed to be.

And if there was one thing I'd finally figured out, it was that your mind is something you always CAN change.

The only time I can ever remember Steven crying over any of it was after my treatment, when I tried to use my foot on his bass drum pedal, and we realized I could never play a drum set.

Al aumentar desproporcionadamente el tamaño de una zona cerebral hace que esta tienda a contactar con zonas que antes no inervaba, produciéndose una interacción entre estas zonas que no se daba en la especie ancestral, lo que puede llevar a mejoras funcionales.

Instalados durante millones de años en la patria común africana, evento tras evento y golpe tras golpe, nuestros antepasados forjaron las sucesivas semillas que desembocaron en lo que, para bien o para mal, nos hemos convertido. No hay duda. Somos hijos de la crisis.