Quotes About Adaptation

There is no room for me here. Why don't I pack up and go? Nothing astonishes these people. They take everything in their stride. They neither rejoice at a birth nor are saddened at a death. When they laugh they say "I ask forgiveness of God" and when they weep they say "I ask forgiveness of God". Just that. And I, what have I learnt?

El mundo no queda nunca estático; cada año que pasa es un mundo diferente. Sin embargo, ahora que todo el mundo dice que vivimos en un mundo cambiante, creo que es una excusa para justificar los excesos.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along than I expect.

Living with you will be like aiming for a moving target; you'll always be further along that I expect.

Hillalum wondered what sort of people were forged by living under such conditions; did they escape madness? Did they grow accustomed to this? Would the children born under a solid sky scream if they saw the ground beneath their feet?

Ease of learning isn't the primary force in language evolution.

what is the role of human scientists in an age when the frontiers of scientific inquiry have moved beyond the comprehension of humans?

I will program my mind to forbid itself from moving beyond its own reprogramming range.

Most of the other employees have been through company collapses before, so while they're unhappy, for them this is just another episode of life in the software industry.

They couldn't have come into being with minds as blank as newborn infants, because they'd have rapidly starved to death in such a scenario.

right now your digients, amazing as they are, have no marketable job skills, and you can't predict when they'll get any. How else are you going to raise the money you need?" How many women have asked themselves the same question, Ana wonders. "So it's the oldest profession.

Stratton envisioned a day when the human species could survive as long as its own behavior allowed, when it could stand or fall based purely on its own actions, and not simply vanish once some predetermined life span had elapsed. Other species might bloom and wither like flowers over seasons of geologic time, but humans would endure for as long as they determined.

The year following Blue Gamma's closure involves many changes for Derek.

As a girl she dreamed of following Fossey and Goodall to Africa; by the time she got out of grad school, there were so few apes left that her best option was to work in a zoo; now she's looking at a job as a trainer of virtual pets.

When stealing from other players, an older musician wisely advised me, choose a different instrument from your own, and people won't notice the theft.

The work of art always requires us to adapt to it—and in this manner can be distinguished from escapism or shallow entertainment, which instead aims to adapt to the audience, to give the public exactly what it wants. We can tell that we are encountering a real work of art by the degree to which it resists subjectivity.

Looking back at the first century of jazz's history, its most identifiable trademark may simply be this unwillingness to sit still, this mandate to absorb other sounds and influences, this destiny as a music of flux and fusion.

Growl it, smear it, flat it, sharp it, do anything you want to it.

Without any reinforcement—except that of seeing his peers hunt—he had learned every detail of flushing and retrieving and hadn't been spooked in the least by the report of the gun.

Then, having had a good cry about my being gone, he'd collect himself and get on with his life, proceeding south into the village, with head and tail erect.

welcomed the low-ranking Wolf 106 and her pups into the pack's den. Under Wolf 42's leadership, Wolf 106 blossomed. She became the finest hunter in the Druid Pack and eventually the leader of her own pack, the Geode Creek Pack, where she, too, instituted a benevolent reign.

Do they miss being sexed? These are hard questions to answer, but we can think of them in this way: If we were neutered before sexual maturity, we probably wouldn't miss what we didn't know. So may it be with our dogs.

When socialized to people, both dogs and wolves transfer to human beings the social relationships which they would normally develop with their own kind insofar as this is permitted by their owners.