Quotes About Adaptation

There isn't much Rainer is proud about any more. In coming to America, he's had to eat a tableful of humble pie, and he's learned it goes down best with a smile.

Non ci sono problemi solo soluzioni.

La vida es aquello que ta sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

La vida es aquello que te va sucediendo mientras te empeñas en hacer otros planes.

Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans. You better believe it.

Whatever gets you through your life, it's alright. It's alright.

Life is something that happens while you're busy making other plans.

They went from regarding these compromises as regrettable to considering them necessary, then normal, then even desirable.

For just as no politics can be pure, so no "grand strategy" will remain unaffected by the unforeseen.

adaptaban mejor los objetivos a las capacidades, los atenienses o los espartanos? Y

Rodearán las ciénagas, no las atravesarán con dificultad.

Scale sets the ranges within which experience accrues. If, in evolution, edges of chaos reward adaptation; if, in history, adaptation fortifies resilience; and if, in individuals, resilience accommodates unknowns

This is where the capitalists got it right: they were better than the communists at learning from history, because they never bought into any single, sacrosanct, and therefore unchallengeable theory of history.

I marvel at animal behaviour but it never surprises me. Nature has had a long time to hone its secret skills.

Information is fleeting. Human records are broken; new particles are discovered; fresh historical documents come to light. Dinosaurs turn out not to be giant grey iguanas after all, but multicoloured feathery proto-birds of all shapes and sizes. Right now, even the daddy of all facts, the Big Bang theory, is looking wobbly.

Kangaroos have three vaginas.

The cockeyed squid has one regular-sized eye and one giant eye.

Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.

We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.

began using that door. In 1880 Pasteur—who observed, "Chance favors the prepared mind"—

Monument and Ignacio, Colorado, went further than banning all public gatherings. They banned customers from stores; the stores remained open, but customers shouted orders through doors, then waited outside for packages.

Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process. Life does not choose the logically best design to meet a new situation. It adapts what already exists. Much of the human genome includes genes which are "conserved"; i.e., which are essentially the same as those in much simpler species. Evolution has built upon what already exists.

But how does one know when to persist, when to continue to try to make an experiment work, when to make adjustments—and when finally to abandon a line of thought as mistaken or incapable of solution with present techniques?

It now seemed as if there had never been life before the epidemic. The disease informed every action of every person in the city.