Quotes About Adaptation

Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

And then, when human beings arrive, the robots can be restored to more robotic schemes of behavior.

Los tiempos hacen al hombre

Desde el punto de vista sociológico, es como si, cuando el viejo Imperio empezó a descomponerse en sus bordes, la ciencia les hubiese fallado a los mundos periféricos. Para que volvieran a aceptarla, tenía que aparecer disfrazada de otra cosa... Y eso es justo lo que ha pasado. Y ha funcionado a las mil maravillas.

there is a tendency to cling to the past—except, of course, as far as weapons of war are concerned.

En mi respuesta le decía: Avram, tú y yo somos judíos que vivimos en un país que es no judío en un noventa y cinco por ciento y nos las arreglamos bastante bien. Me pregunto cómo nos desenvolveríamos, Avram, si fuéramos gentiles y viviéramos en un país con un noventa y cinco por ciento de judíos ortodoxos. Memorias

Culture dictates invention

Sentimentele pe care le ai sunt, desigur, rezultatul evolu?iei tale ?i nu trebuie condamnate spuse Primul Vorbitor. Trebuie doar schimbate.

But, tell me, how would you get us out of our present mess?" "Your present mess. I had nothing to do with it." "Consider the question suitably modified.

No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

por mucho que

Dr. Fastolfe said, with obvious surprise, "Are you satisfied with life on Earth?" "We get along.

I know this much: species evolve only to meet the pressures of new environments. In a stable environment, a species may remain unchanged for millions of Centuries. Primitive man evolved rapidly because his environment was a harsh and changing one. Once, however, mankind learned to create his own environment, he created a pleasant and stable one, so he just naturally stopped evolving.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing – I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

A lion attacks a herd of zebras and kills one. The frightened zebras run for a while and then they stop and start to graze again. Do they have a choice?

She had learned to drink in Russia.

She made Herman think of a stale loaf of bread put into a hot oven to be freshened up.

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past is erased with a single stroke and no one cares where you're from or what you did before.

El exiliado mira hacia el pasado, lamiéndose las heridas; el inmigrante mira hacia el futuro, dispuesto a aprovechar las oportunidades a su alcance.

Tenía la ternura torpe de quien nunca ha sido amado y debe improvisar.

En cada ocasión debía acomodar su estado de ánimo a las exigencias del momento, pero al terminar la jornada, en el silencio de su habitación, pasaba revista a los acontecimientos y concluía que en medio del diario desafío lo más conveniente era no pensar demasiado para evitar que el miedo o la ira lo paralizaran.

un estropicio de obreros haciendo hoyos en el pavimento, quitando árboles para pones postes, quitando postes para poner edificios, quitando edificios para plantar árboles.

At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to

I was a voracious reader and what I had learned in books confirmed that the world changes constantly and humanity evolves, but the changes are only obtained after much struggle.