Quotes About Adaptation

Never, ever rest on your laurels. Today's laurels are tomorrow's compost.

History is like a constantly changing tree.

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

It is through history that we learn who we are and how we got that way, why and how we changed, why the good sometimes prevailed and sometimes did not.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Every generation tailors history to its taste.

s past history and stand alone.

Movie SF is, by definition, dumbed down - there have only been three or four SF movies in the history of film that aspire to the complexity of literary SF.

History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells, 'Can't you remember anything I told you?' and lets fly with a club.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

The scum of the earth... but what fine soldiers we have made them.

We read the past by the light of the present, and the forms vary as the shadows fall, or as the point of vision alters.

We live in an era with no historical precedents. History is no longer useful as a tool in helping us understand current changes.

History shows that no enemy remains hostile forever, nor do friends remain friendly forever. For that reason, we intend to have normal relations with all.

History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.

History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.

History is constantly repeating itself, making only such changes of programme as the growth of nations and centuries requires.

The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.