Quotes About Adaptation

The best plans of men and mice often go awry.

I didn't know the right names for anything at first, but I knew what knocked me out. Changes... man I dug.

Man is not committed in detail by his biological constitution to any particular variety of behavior.

Man is a child of his environment

Man is not constituted to take pleasure in the same things always.

Men have slow reflexes. In general it takes several generations later for them to understand.

The true epic of our times is not "Arm's and the Man," but "Tools and the Man"--an infinitely wider kind of epic.

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.

Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.

We agree that man was not created to survive in space.

A man cannot sleep in his cradle: whatever is useful must in the nature of life become useless.

I am a Soviet man, and Yeltsin is a Soviet man - maybe our grandchildren will be different.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

No man can be held throughout the day by what happens throughout the night.

Times don't change. Men do.

Flying. Whatever any other organism has been able to do man should surely be able to do also, though he may go a different way about it.

If man evolved from monkeys and apes, why do we still have monkeys and apes?

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

There are men too gentle to live among wolves.

My wife has lived with at least five different men since we were wed - and each of the five has been me.

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

Men have learned to shoot without missing their mark and I have learned to fly without perching on a twig.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

Plasticity loves new moulds because it can fill them, but for a man of sluggish mind and bad manners there is decidedly no place like home.