Quotes About Adaptation

We not only learn, but we also learn to gradually change our conceptual framework and to adapt it to what we learn.

I believe that we need to adapt our philosophy to our science, and not our science to our philosophy.

Children grow up and discover that the world is not as it seemed from within the four walls of their homes. Humankind as a whole does the same.

We are the products of a long selection process of chemical, biological, and cultural structures that at different levels have interacted for a long time in order to shape the funny process that we are.

Scientific answers are not definitive: they are, almost by definition, the best ones that we have at any given time. Consider

To ask oneself in general what exists or what is real means only to ask how would you like to use a verb and an adjective; it's a grammatical question, not a question about nature. Nature, for its part, is what it is, and we discover it very gradually. If our grammar and our intuition do not readily adapt to what we discover, well, too bad. We must seek to adapt them.

we understand the world by studying change, not by studying things.

We think that our minds are all powerful but in reality they've evolved to do what we need to do, like hunt, eat and talk to one another. So the concepts in our head are designed to deal with animals, trees, rivers and people. There's no reason why they should be able to deal with atoms or galaxies. But I believe we're flexible and our minds are curious, so we can change our thinking.

Le cose si trasformano l'una nell'altra secondo necessità e si rendono giustizia secondo l'ordine del tempo.

We are structured to manage precisely this: information; and remain in existence thanks to this.

We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to throw those ideas aside for another set that now make sense to you and calm your hurt.

People were not peaches. Like guns and saddles, they were all the better for becoming slightly worn.

No Brasil não há outono mas as folhas caem - In Brazil there is no autumn but the leaves fall

Eis que assisto a meu desmonte palmo a palmo e não me aflijo de me tornar planície

The entrepreneurs of new firms as much as the management of the old (whether modernizing or not) are forced to do whatever is necessary to attract the players in the casino and then worry as much – or more – about the perfor- mance of their stock valuations as about their actual profits. Financial capital reigns arrogant and production capital has no alternative but to adapt to the new rules; some agents with glee, others with horror.

Me: What will the Earth eat now that the humans are gone? Themroc: The Earth must become vegetarian.

Had anyone told me that I was going to have a career in business, I would have said, 'No way.'

I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

wondered, not for the first time, how exactly Snow White had managed to live with seven men without murdering at least one of them

I'm a classical type of guy. Whatever's out at that point in time, I like it. I just put my own twist on it, and we go from there.

With the way everything's going now and the way that technology is going, you can do a lot of things with a lot of different new materials.

It's difficult to get on with people of another generation, even when they don't try to impose their way of seeing things on us.

La vida volvía a ser solitaria para mí. Como era algo que parecía no tener remedio, lo tomé con resignación.

Se estudiaban para la nota, No eran optativas. Aprobado en hija de familia. Aprobado en noviazgo. Aprobado en economía doméstica. Aprobado en trato conyugal y en deberes para con la parentela política. Aprobado en partos, Aprobado en suavizar asperezas, en buscar un sitio para cada cosa y en poner al mal tiempo buena cara. Aprobado en maternidad activa, , aunque esta asignatura por ser la más difícil, está sometida a continua revisión.