Quotes About Adaptation

she tapped her finger and nothing happened and she thought she had lost her magic, but it had only changed and it took her awhile to figure it out.

Deciding everything is falling into place perfectly as long as you don't get too picky about what you mean by place. Or perfectly. —Falling Into Place

Making Room: When I first met him, I knew in a moment I would have to spend the next few days re-arranging my mind so there'd be room for him to stay.

If there is no wind, start rowing.

The combined effects of mutation, natural selection and the random process of genetic drift cause changes in the composition of a population. Over a sufficiently long period of time, these cumulative effects alter the population's genetic make-up, and can thus greatly change the species' characteristics from those of its ancestors.

The combined effects of mutation, natural selection and the random process of genetic drift cause changes in the composition of a population. Over a sufficiently long period of time, these cumulative effects alter the population's genetic make-up, and can thus greatly change the species' characteristics from those of its ancestors. We

Such a process of change will be especially likely if a population is exposed to a changed environment, where a somewhat different set of characteristics is favoured from those already established by selection.

The trick as an educated citizen of the twenty-first century is to realise that Nature is far stranger and more wonderful than human imagination, and the only appropriate response to new discoveries is to enjoy one's inevitable discomfort, take delight in being shown to be wrong and learn something as a result.

Lucy was little more than an upright chimpanzee; an animal, a genetic survival machine. We bring art, science, literature and meaning to the Earth; we are a world away, and yet separated by the blink of an eye.

If a spiritual community only points back to where it has been or if it only digs in its heels where it is now, it is a dead end or a parking lot, not a way.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

It's nice, I think, when people use your music for things you didn't think of.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface.

Regard your limitations as secret strengths. Or as constraints that you can make use of.

Questions for U2: 'What record would you like to make – i.e. how would you like this to be read? How would you like to get there? Does it bother you if the result is 'undemocratic'? How much cheating is allowed? How much me?' Lincoln's axe: 'This is Lincoln's original axe. The head has been replaced three times and the handle twice.

He found the slot that people thought best suited him and he crammed himself into it. He grew up.

She told them: the hardest part is to start over by building something new.

But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it can happen that a civilisation can be imprisoned in a linguistic contour which no longer matches the landscape of... fact.

It's so much more interesting to study a ... damaged world. I find it difficult to learn anything in a place that's too civilized.

For the first time she realized she'd spent so much time mourning a world that had ended ages ago, hoping to resurrect it, that she'd never paid attention to what it was becoming. Or returning to again, now that it was unfettered. Where were the centaurs, she might have asked instead. Where were the gorgons, the furies, the giants and the gods?

Sometimes it seems as if the best technology is still only catching up to what nature has already figured out.

when I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner.

If there's an opposite of a honeymoon, it's the week after a couple's first child is born.