Quotes About Adaptation

Wilderness is the raw material out of which man has hammered the artifact called civilization.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

The man who broods over the past can never master the difficulties of today. Every wise man learn to forget.

Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst.

To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

The Conservative Party mustn't sound like the old man on the park bench who says things were better in 1985, or 1955, or 1855.

No wise man has called a change of opinion in constancy.

Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines.

I am bold enough to say that a man-made Moon voyage will never occur regardless of all scientific advances.

Like a blind man at an orgy, I was going to have to feel my way through.

Evolution is fascinating to watch. To me it is the most interesting when one can observe the evolution of a single man.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

Men shut their doors against a setting sun.

Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!

How quickly a zek (a prisoner) gets cheeky-or, putting it in literary language, how quickly a man's requirements grow.

In [my] life ... I did not understand steam machinery, but I tried to understand that much more complicated piece of mechanism - man.

The tearoom lady called me love. All the shop ladies called me love and most of the men called me mate. I hadn't been here twelve hours and already they loved me.

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

It is almost as difficult to make a man unlearn his errors as his knowledge.