Quotes About Adaptation

What we call disorder and ruin, others who are younger live as the natural order of things.

We are entirely enclosed in our time and institutions, we can fight against it only with it, indirectly, from the inside.

Life is not only an organization for survival; there is in life a prodigious flourishing of forms, the utility of which is only rarely attested to and that sometimes even constitutes a danger for the animal...Adaptation is not the canon of life, but a particular realization in the tide of natural production...It can be perfectly argued that life is not uniquely submitted to the principle of utility, and that there is a morphogenesis in the design of expression.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.

The average lifetime of a company on the Standard & Poor's 500 stock index has declined from sixty years to a mere ten years

Physics as we know it will be over in six months.

Imagine what could be accomplished if only the human race would shed its humanity.

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat sich das Deutsche allzu widerstandslos als eine Art Dorftrottel unter den Sprachen präsentiert, der nicht in der Lage ist, für aktuelle Gegenstände aus seinem angestammten Wortschatz neue Begriffe zu bilden, und sich statt dessen auf eine Weise, die ein amerikanischer Kommentator als 'vorauseilende Unterwürfigkeit' bezeichnete, mit schlaffer, alterfleckiger Hand aus dem weltweit dampfenden englischen Breitopf bedient.

Adaptability is the quality which makes for progress,

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents . . . Its opponents gradually die out and the growing generation is familiar with the idea from the beginning.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: it rarely happens that Saul becomes Paul. What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out and that the growing generation is familiarized with the idea from the beginning.

An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.

Nature never undertakes any change unless her interests are served by an increase in entropy.

o capitalismo atual, que se desenvolveu a ponto de dominar a vida econômica, educa e seleciona os sujeitos econômicos de que precisa por um processo de sobrevivência econômica dos mais bem adaptados.

One of the mightiest features of this revolution that I personally feel every single day is that back in the old days, we used to change over years. Today, we change within a matter of hours.

Our PR business today has increasingly less in common with the business we used to do just ten years ago, let alone a hundred years ago. Pretty soon, it will look nothing like its former self.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

When fall came and your leaves fell, they would blow away, but you would remain.

We ask a great deal of the world at first -- then less -- and then less.

The years are long, and full of sharp, wearing days That wear out what we are and what we have been And change us into people we do not know, Living among strangers.

21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell.

Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.