Quotes About Adaptation

A traveler enters the world into which he travels, but a tourist brings his own world with him and never sees the one he's in.

Only a scientific people can survive in a scientific future.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.

My experience of the world is that things left to themselves don't get right.

Joe Louis once said, "Every fighter has a plan until they get hit.

the bad stuff will ultimately turn good if you wait long enough, and the good stuff will turn bad over time.

Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.

People lose people, we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change, and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

On matters of style, swim with the current, on matters of principle, stand like a rock.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment.

The false self is deeply entrenched. You can change your name and address, religion, country, and clothes. But as long as you don't ask it to change, the false self simply adjusts to the new environment. For example, instead of drinking your friends under the table as a significant sign of self-worth and esteem, if you enter a monastery, as I did, fasting the other monks under the table could become your new path to glory.

Good companies embrace a culture of mini-failures.

We all have to expect to lose something in times like these.

More than that, in the five hundred years of European OCCUPATION, Native cultures have already driven themselves to be remarkably tenacious and resilient.

The yard consisted of grass and a Russian Olive tree, which was about the only kind of tree able to survive on the high prairies. Its thin, grey leaves made it look as though it were on the verge of dying, thereby fooling the elements and the bad weather into thinking that they didn't have to bother with something so spindly and bent, something so obviously on its last legs.

For an individual, one of the definitions of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again in the same way and expecting different results. For a government, such behaviour is called...policy.

Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.

The enterprise of making sense of the material world turns on a key question: what happens when something observed in nature doesn't fit within the established framework of existing human knowledge?

Science is unique among human ways of knowing because it is self-correcting. Every

Most people learn to save themselves by artificially limiting the content of consciousness.

There will come a day for each of us, and then for all of us, when the future will be done with. Until then, humanity will acclimate itself to every new horror that comes knocking as it has done from the very beginning.

We did not create an environment uncongenial to our species, nature did.

He ceased to be a person so that he could remain a successful organism.