Quotes About Adaptation

Science does not aim at establishing immutable truths and eternal dogmas; its aim is to approach the truth by successive approximations, without claiming that at any stage final and complete accuracy has been achieved.

You all know the argument from design: everything in the world is made just so that we can manage to live in the world, and if the world was ever so little different, we could not manage to live in it. That is the argument from design. It sometimes takes a rather curious form; for instance, it is argued that rabbits have white tails in order to be easy to shoot. I do not know how rabbits would view that application.

Machines have altered our way of life, but not our instincts. Consequently, there is maladjustment.

I am in no degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed?

The ideal of an "all-round" education is out of date; it has been destroyed by the progress of knowledge.

Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.

El animal humano, igual que los demás, está adaptado a cierto grado de lucha por la vida, y cuando su gran riqueza permite a un Homo sapiens satisfacer sin esfuerzo todos sus caprichos, la mera ausencia de esfuerzo le quita a su vida un ingrediente imprescindible de la felicidad.

We are at the present day passing through a somewhat confused period, when many people have thrown over the old standards without acquiring new ones.

These same people, transported into another set where their outlook is not thought strange, will seem to change their character entirely. From being serious, shy and retiring they may become gay and self-confident; from being angular they may become smooth and easy; from being self-centred they may become sociable and extrovert.

Becoming aware of foreign customs, however, does not always have a beneficial effect. In the 17th Century, when the Manchus conquered China, it was the custom among the Chinese for the women to have small feet, and among the Manchus for the men to wear pigtails. Instead of each dropping their own foolish custom, they each adopted the foolish custom of the other, and the Chinese continued to wear pigtails until they shook off the domination of the Manchus in the revolution of 1911.

It's no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change. It is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. It had followed the constant pattern of discard and growth that all lives follow.

Change is often perceived as chaos and not always won peacefully.

This becomes the pattern of being alive: cut apart, heal together, cut apart, heal together. Everything breaks down into smaller and smaller pieces, but I'm still able to call them all in, know their names, keep track of them.

Even if the steering wheel fits, you don't have to keep gripping it.

You have turned things around, as if the potter were the same as the clay. Isaiah 29:16

We may plan to stay forever and commit with noble intentions to do one thing for the rest of our lives. But when the Spirit of God moves within us, we must move with Him or be miserable.

I think the GOP, the Grand Old Party, the Republicans, they will regroup.

My reputation grows with every failure.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

I was 20 years old when I started playing in the Premier League. Maybe mentally I wasn't quite prepared for it, and that has earned me a reputation.

Sometimes fake laughing is hard once you've done a scene 18 times. I don't want to brag, but I have a reputation for being very, very good at that. It's funny finding what's challenging about acting as you go.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn't about a dive outside of the ring.

If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.'