Quotes About Adaptation

Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

Men are born human. What they must learn is to be an animal. If they learn otherwise it may kill them, and kill life on the planet.

A man must be strong enough to mold the peculiarity of his imperfections into the perfection of his peculiarities.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.

The life of man is like a game with dice; if you don't get the throw you want, you must show your skill in making the best of the throw you get.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

It's not the genius who is 100 years ahead of his time but average man who is 100 years behind it.

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

When you're on the wrong road, sometimes the most progressive man is the one who goes backwards first. As long as there are such people, hope lies in our future.

One man's constant is another man's variable.

The man who has ceased to learn ought not to be allowed to wander around loose in these dangerous days.

Religion has not civilized man, man has civilized religion.

In soft regions are born soft men.

When man wanted to make a machine that would walk he created the wheel, which does not resemble a leg.

Whatever be the qualities of the man with whom a woman is united according to the law, such qualities even she assumes, like a river, united with the ocean.

There's no accounting for laws. Or the changes wrought by men and time.

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.

An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and built a new market devoted to selling T-shirts and other objects with pictures of the old market. Meanwhile, the people who had operated the little stalls in the old market had gone elsewhere and set up a thing on the edge of town that was now called the New Market even though it was actually the old market.

The opening screen of T'Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this since he had heard that Google Earth in turn was based on an idea from some old science fiction novel

People wait until they have a need for some history and then they customize it to suit their purposes.

It wasn't just a matter of hiding what you really felt. If you hid your feelings well enough, it actually changed you. A

boys had been programmed by Darwinian selection to run around in the open chucking spears at wild animals—something