Quotes About Adaptation

it's not our experiences that form us but the ways in which we respond to them;

As a result, man is the only successful type which has remained as a single interbreeding group or species, and has not radiated out into a number of biologically separated assemblages

man's evolution was unique in showing the dominance of convergence over divergence:

A sensible man will remember that the eyes may be confused in two ways - by a change from light to darkness or from darkness to light; and he will recognise that the same thing happens to the soul.

the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

yet the true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her

Human beings are largely a product of their social environment.

Time brings everything, and dragging years alter names and forms, nature and even destiny.

I used to want to change the world. Now I'm open to letting it change me.

No one likes to be criticized, she admitted, but criticism can be something like the desert wind that, in whipping the tender corn stalks, forces them to strike their roots down deeper for security.

I would never go home again in quite the same way, but that was okay too.

Change always comes bearing gifts.

Man's capacity to dig himself in, to secrete a shell, to build around himself a tenuous barrier of defence, even in apparently desperate circumstances, is astonishing and merits a serious study.

no hay vanidad mayor que esforzarse en tragarse enteros los sistemas morales elaborados por los demás, bajo otros cielos.

She lived with the doctor on Via Po, in a gloomy, dark apartment, barely warmed in winter by just a small Franklin stove, and she no longer threw out anything, because everything might eventually come in handy: not even the cheese rinds or the foil on chocolates, with which she made silver balls to be sent to missions to "free a little black boy.

Sometimes, she had discovered, you had to walk around the holes in your life, instead of falling into them.

Publius Ovidius Naso

Change is good.

So, when Cole was two and I was four, we moved to Goshen Falls. Lucky us! The whole town is three blocks long. We have a cute little farm with a cute little farmhouse. And even though Mom and Dad are computer programmers — not farmers — we have a backyard full of chickens.

You must change your life.

Oliver laughed - actually laughed.I like this new Claire, he said. You should work her this hard all the time, Myrnin. She's interesting when she's forthright. Claire, possessed by the spirit of Eve, shot him the finger. Which made him laugh again, shake his head, and walk up the steps.

Look, I hate good-byes, too. But sometimes, we need them just to survive.

I'm fine with Nature's way, as long as Nature keeps it out of *my* way.