Quotes About Adaptation

but time makes many changes.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

les gens changent tellement qu'il ya toujours du nouveau à observer.

Her love of dirt gave way to an inclination for finery, and she grew clean as she grew smart;

There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere—and

afterwards.--She had humoured, or softened, or concealed his failings

We are very much disposed to like our new maid; she knows nothing of a dairy, to be sure, which, in our family, is rather against her, but she is to be taught it all. In short, we have felt the inconvenience of being without a maid so long, that we are determined to like her, and she will find it a hard matter to displease us. As yet, she seems to cook very well, is uncommonly stout, and says she can work well at her needle.

Ä°nsanlar, kendileri o kadar deÄŸiÅŸiyorlar ki içlerinde hep gözlemlenecek yeni bir ÅŸey oluyor.

I've come to believe that students would benefit more if we moved away from teaching them how to use technology and toward teaching them how to use technology to learn and think.

I well remember writing to Louis about my first observations, describing how David Graybeard not only used bits of straw to fish for termites but actually stripped leaves from a stem and thus made a tool. And I remember too receiving the now oft-quoted telegram he sent in response to my letter: Now we must redefine tool, redefine Man, or accept chimpanzees as humans. There

very few Westerners, I thought, could tolerate such a way of life- for it would mean having to forgo the luxuries which we had come to think of as necessities.

Here was a chimpanzee using a tool... That was object modification-- the crude beginning of tool making.

The naturalist," Jane said, "looks for the wonder of nature—she listens to the voice of nature and learns from nature as she tries to understand it. Whereas a scientist is more focused on facts and the desire to quantify. For a scientist, the question is, 'Why is this adaptive? How does it contribute to the survival of the species?

Actually, it's a survival trait," she finally concluded. "That's what it is. It is a human survival trait and without it we perish.

enhances the orchid's reproductive success—but not his own! The best known of these cheats is the bee orchid—the flower looks and feels like a female bee and even has the same pheromones.

They actually have brains in each of their eight arms!

survival of your own genes," I said.

It was from a species long thought to be extinct—a species known only from the fossil record, a species that turned out to have survived for two hundred million years. Those trees, who came to be known as Wollemi pines, had been in that canyon, getting on with their lives, through seventeen Ice Ages!

Welwitschia mirabilis.

Imagine—this gangly plant, which Darwin likened to a duckbill platypus of the vegetable kingdom, has survived as a species, unchanged, for 135 to 205 million years. Originally its habitat was lush, moist forest, yet it has now adapted to a very different environment—the harsh Namib Desert.

That's the thing about theories. You can theorize what you want, but at the end of the day when your theories become reality, when the situation you have theorized about is suddenly presented to you, your theories go flying out the window?

Shock doesn't hit all at once. I have learned.

sometimes, in life, you have to make things happen. That you can change your life if you're willing to let go of the old and actively look for the new. That even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there.