Quotes About Adaptation

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.

Elizabeth understood as she never had before. Everyone, all of them had lived secure in the belief that the earth was stable, unchanging, eternal. Now no one could trust the ground beneath their feet. Yes, the earthquake was the story of destruction, but not just of things. An earthquake destroyed security. It destroyed complacency. It changed the people who lived through it.

When we are born, we are studied, and deviations, if noxious to the species, are suppressed; good deviations are preserved. And furthermore, we bear our formula on our arm band!

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Before Elle had come into his life, he didn't even know what tea was. Now it was a staple. Worse, he actually knew the differences in teas.

He thought moving to a small town would allow him to find a way to get along to some extent but people were just plain idiots.

every man there had been trained from childhood in the brutal schools, as assassins. They were all looking for a new life and trying to figure out the rules of society. They knew they'd never fit perfectly, but they were doing their best.

She wasn't certain what he was going to work on, being a caveman all the time, or trying not to be a caveman most of the time.

That frying pan is looking better and better to me," she muttered under her breath. "I think we're going to have to hang one on the wall in every room, both here and at the clubhouse

We thank you for the offer, healer, but Shea is unused to our ways." Jacques couldn't remember most of them himself.

How do you manage to turn everything to your advantage?" His hand found the bare skin of her satin-smooth thigh, reveling in all that warm heat. "I do not know the answer to that, little one. Perhaps it is sheer talent.

Everyone is crazy here, Savannah. You are going to fit right in.

First, we were throwing threats like gang signs. Now, we're back to talking normally.

Apparently, I was going to have to get used to the idea of being stared at and inspected. People were going to be interested and inquisitive, I decided, and I would just have to accept it as logical, if I was going to function in the world at all.

His new life required no great change in the patterns of his behaviour. It was merely an adjustment. He had always known how to make himself invisible.

His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.

Fair point. I suppose dressing up in hot countries simply involves putting on shoes. A bit like Wales.

Each generation ... rescues a new area from what its predecessors arrogantly and snobbishly dismissed as 'the lunatic fringe.

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

Those who are determined to be 'offended' will discover a provocation somewhere. We cannot possibly adjust enough to please the fanatics, and it is degrading to make the attempt.

Evolution is, as well as smarter than we are, infinitely more callous and cruel, and also capricious.

He was so much the picture of different kinds of assimilation that it was almost a case of multiple personalities.

The brief answer is that I have become inured without becoming indifferent.

Bad habits have brought me this far: why change such a tried-and-true formula?