Quotes About Adaptation

Life can make you do many things, even kiss a man with a runny nose.

When men destroy their old gods they will find new ones to take their place.

Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

If man ever comes to perfect equilibrium with the environment, we'll all be redundant, perhaps because you won't need art or letters.

Man is going to be displaced altogether as a specialist by the computer. Man himself is being forced to reestablish, employ, and enjoy his innate 'comprehensivity.

What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

No man can really succeed if he doesn't move away from where he was born. I believe it is particularly true for the writer.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

Throughout the developed world,we have moved from "man power"to "mind power."We have moved from the use of physical muscle to the use of mental muscle.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man will poke out his eye to fit in.

You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

Don't have a cow, man.

The man of least capacity is the one who shows himself incapable of self-correction.

For this is the tragedy of man circumstances change, but he does not.

Man is a distance runner as a consequence of hundreds of thousands of years of chasing antelopes, horses, elephants, wild cattle, and deer.

Men ran after and ate horses for four hundred thousand years. The outcome is more than a love of horse flesh; it is a runner's body.

Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

A man could get used to anything if he had to.

Far from the truth lay the antique assumption that man had fathered the weapon. The weapon, instead, had fathered man.

If you were going to compete successfully in a white man's world, you had to learn to play the white man's game. It was not enough that an Indian be as good as; an Indian had to be better than.

I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.

The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.