Quotes About Adaptation

My voice adapts itself to the music. I can do a lot more than you hear in Portishead.

The good thing is that there is a constant need for innovation, which is important in the evolution of music and sound.

Music is going to go in some direction that is entirely inconceivable now. If someone had been asked twenty years ago what direction they thought music was going in, they wouldn't have said sampling.

Electronic music is so weird because trends change so fast.

Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

A building should appear to grow easily from its site and be shaped to harmonize with its surroundings if Nature is manifest there.

Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.

Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

Many things which nature makes difficult become easy to the man who uses his brains.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they're not easy, nature didn't give them to us - we have to learn them.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture.

Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.

If an animal has to be sacrificed when a new bridge is built, what will it take to build a whole new world?

Human nature exists and operates in an environment. And it is not 'in' that environment as coins are in a box, but as a plant is in the sunlight and soil.

If you drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will soon find a way back.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

It is a kind of law of nature. The goal one aims for can rarely be reached by a direct road.

What if, every time I started to invent something, I asked, 'How would nature solve this?'

It is not to be expected that human nature will change in a day.

Nature does not care that you are comfortable, only that you evolve.

Organizations, by their very nature are designed to promote order and routine. They are inhospitable environments for innovation.