Quotes About Adaptation

People will look at you, what you're doing, rewriting the regiment rule book, and they'll want to do the same for themselves. That's when you'll start to run into resistance. That's where the politics begins. And that's the dirtiest fight there is.

Mother Mary, this is not what was meant to be." "Nothing ever is, Doc. I learned that long ago." "Ha! You're too young." "Depends how you fill the years, doesn't it?

Science your way out of this.

Learn the rules when you go abroad," Luca said forcefully. "And then live by them.

You are new to sentience. Your behaviour is still affected by your animal origin.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

experience with parents as pivotal in shaping an individual's values, beliefs, character, and, naturally, dysfunctions in adaptation.

We shall argue that attachment is not an end in itself; rather, it exists in order to produce a representational system that has evolved, we may presume, to aid human survival.

it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment—all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.

Mischief and craft are plainly seen to be characteristics of this creature. —Claudius Aelianus, third century A.D., writing about the octopus

The mind evolved in the sea.

Cephalopods are evolution's only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.

All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and

Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights

mammals and birds can live longer, if they don't get eaten

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Es gibt nur eine Art und Weise, eine andere Kultur zu verstehen. Sie zu leben. In sie einzuziehen, darum zu bitten, als Gast geduldet zu werden, die Sprache zu lernen. Irgendwann kommt dann vielleicht das Verständnis. Es wird dann immer wortlos sein. In dem Moment, in dem man das Fremde begreift, verliert man den Drang, es zu erklären. Ein Phänomen erklären heißt, sich davon entfernen.

The same ideas that created the problem will not be able to solve it.

When F. W. Woolworth opened his first store, a merchant on the same street tried to fight the new competition. He hung out a big sign: "Doing business in this same spot for over fifty years." The next day Woolworth also put out a sign. It read: "Established a week ago: no old stock.

But in the fourth century, as in any other, 'no plan survives first contact with the enemy'.

The author describes the attitude of some on the frontier at Rome's twilight as exhibiting "a kind of London-in-the-blitz determination to carry on being more Roman than usual.

One answer to the transitory nature of imperial rule, in short, is that there is a Newtonian third law of empires. The exercise of imperial power generates an opposite and equal reaction among those affected by it, until they so reorganize themselves as to blunt the imperial edge.

life was about being agile in spirit and adapting quickly.

was swiftly plain that life in After Covid Britain would be enduringly different from Before Covid Britain.