Quotes About Adaptation

History is not the study of origins; rather it is the analysis of all the mediations by which the past was turned into our present.

The grass will grow in the streets of a hundred cities.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Trade as well as war has changed aspect—both are now fought at long range.

Once teachers can forget how a class should be they can discover each year what it must be like with that specific class at that particular moment in their lives.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

I don't care how big and fast computers are, they're not as big and fast as the world.

Engineering, medicine, business, architecture and painting are concerned not with the necessary but with the contingent - not with how things are but with how they might be - in short, with design.

Human knowledge has been changing from the word go and people in certain respects behave more rationally than they did when they didn't have it. They spend less time doing rain dances and more time seeding clouds.

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life."

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

There is nothing in this world, incredible though it may seem, to which the human body and with it the human soul cannot in time learn to adapt itself.

We have to play what is actually in demand, and we have to play it as well and as beautifully and as expressively as ever we can.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

Gary's seemingly random, circuitous method actually has an underlying logic. But this test-and-learn approach flies in the face of the more traditional method, the

Rarely does "becoming an ex" happen as a result of one sudden decision. Instead, it happens over a period of time, one that often begins before we are fully aware of what is happening.

oscillating among the different possibilities allows us time to come to new and different ways of integrating who we were then with who we are now and who we are becoming. When this self-exploration and self-testing ends prematurely—either because we are not able to tolerate the contradictions or because we are unable to assimilate new information about ourselves—we risk either letting go of the past too rapidly or holding on to it too rigidly.