Quotes About Adaptation

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. —John von Neumann

you create your brain from the input you get.

The story of evolution unfolds with increasing levels of abstraction.

We are a pattern that changes slowly but has stability and continuity, even though the stuff constituting the pattern changes quickly.

Increasing complexity" on its own is not, however, the ultimate goal or end-product of these evolutionary processes. Evolution results in better answers, not necessarily more complicated ones. Sometimes a superior solution is a simpler one.

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

If you have difficulty reaching your goal, keep the goal, but change your strategy.

Tractores, mi vida, tractores, mira los surcos que dejan. Mientras tú lloras ellas ya le están haciendo llorar a otro. Y hacen bien, y tú tendrías que hacer lo mismo.

Es curioso comprobar cómo se echan de menos sensaciones que no son buenas, pero a las que uno se ha acostumbrado

The old adage that 'there is no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing' is certainly true. Other

We're learning as we go. We're a lot smarter this time. We understand what it takes to mobilize away from the threat of a hurricane.

Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.

Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it must be the only solution.

Don't assume the world evolved in the order in which you discovered it.

Old habits are hard to forget, and old fears are habits.

We all live like cockroaches in the crevices of our imagination.

From a biological perspective, making mistakes is critical to new learning

Challenge occurs when we have to apply current knowledge or skills to situations that require extension or development of them.

The problem with religion right now. It hasn't evolved. And instead of being open and looking for ways to be relevant in today's world, it's gone all defensive and protective and it's regressed into lowest-common-denominator sound bites - and fundamentalism.

Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

A lot of people are open to new things, as long as they look like the old ones.

He wanted to be content with an identity nicely chopped into pieces of varying lengths, but whose character was always similar, without dyeing it in autumnal colors, drenching it in April showers or mottling it with the instability of clouds.

L'instruction! Voyez ce que c'est, monsieur, que l'instruction. On apprend quelque chose à l'école, on se donne même du mal, beaucoup de mal, pour apprendre quelque chose à l'école, et puis vingt ans après, ou même avant, ce n'est plus ça, les choses ont changé, on ne sait plus rien, alors vraiment ce n'était pas la peine. Aussi je préfère penser qu'apprendre.

Consequently, no matter how they try, immigrants cannot prevent their children from becoming cultural products of the adopted country. Through their efforts at preservation, they can only accentuate the gap between the two cultures and prevent harmonization.