Quotes About Adaptation

The human mechanism is marvelous. But why not — it is the result of three-and-a-half billion years of tinkering.

Our biochemistry bolts and revolts at our modern life.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Every truth bends and reshapes itself or is reshaped by other forces.

OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.

Whether the weather be cold, or whether the weather be hot; Whether the weather be fine, or whether the weather be not, We'll weather the weather whatever the weather, Whether we like it or not.

Caulfield: In the past, here's how you'd forecast the weather: pick up your phone; call someone west of you; have them open a window. In the present, you open a window on your phone. Frazz: In the future, no one goes outdoors.

Lord, give me coffee to change the things I can change, and wine to accept the things that I can't.

February thought on the human condition: Now is when we complain if the house isn't as warm as it was in the summer, when we complained about the heat.

Resist winter as you will — the cold will come.

You can't have it all, all at once... Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough.

Justices continue to think and can change. I am ever hopeful that if the court has a blind spot today, its eyes will be open tomorrow.

For he who rejects change is the architect of decay.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I like my new telephone, my computer works just fine, my calculator is perfect, but Lord, I miss my mind!

I had a life once. Now I have a computer.

If the climate can change, then so can you.

The bat hanging upside down laughs at the topsy-turvy world.

New is something old that has been long forgotten.

At high tide the fish eat ants; at low tide the ants eat fish.

A Short History of Medicine: 2000 B.C. – "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. – "That root is heathen, say this prayer." 1850 A.D. – "That prayer is superstition, drink this potion." 1940 A.D. – "That potion is snake oil, swallow this pill." 1985 A.D. – "That pill is ineffective, take this antibiotic." 2000 A.D. – "That antibiotic is artificial. Here, eat this root."

On average a panda bear feeds about 12 hours per day. This is the same as a human adult at home under quarantine — which is why we call it a PANDEMIC.

I ran out of toilet paper and started using lettuce leaves. Today was just the tip of the iceberg; tomorrow romaines to be seen.

Quarantini recipe — 2 parts whatever alcohol you have lying around and 1 part boredom