Quotes About Adaptation

Man is an animal that "arrived"; that is all.

On the other hand, when too much time is occupied in traveling, we become strangers to our native country; and the over curious in the customs of the past are generally ignorant of those of the present.

Mais lorsqu'on emploie trop de temps à voyager, on devient enfin étranger en son pays; et lorsqu'on est trop curieux des choses qui se pratiquoient aux siècles passés, on demeure ordinairement fort ignorant de celles qui se pratiquent en celui-ci.

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems

Which of the factors that the industry takes for granted should be eliminated? Which factors should be reduced well below the industry's standard? Which factors should be raised well above the industry's standard? Which factors should be created that the industry has never offered?

Impose ta chance, serre ton bonheur et va vers ton risque. À te regarder, ils s'habitueront.

A very large percentage of illnesses are the expressions of inadequate responses to the environment.

As events beyond my control unfold. I go within to find peace."

None of us is leading quite the life we were at all prepared for.

Stone is replaced by concrete, literature is replaced by journalism, journalism is replaced by information, man is replaced by woman, man and woman are replaced by robots, robots are replaced by cyborgs, and maybe humanity is replaced by post-humanity or trans humanity, i do think replacement is central to the modern society.

The very essence of modernity is the fact that everything—and really everything—can be replaced by something else, which is absolutely monstrous

Sweet as sugar. And then he hardened. I can't 'splain it another way. He was like sugar in a jar that hardens. And after a while you take it out, and it is one rock-solid lump.

Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place.

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population growth, to the dirt, pollution and noise of a New York or Tokyo. And that is the tragedy. It is not man the ecological crisis threatens to destroy but the quality of human life.

An object is not so attached to its name that we cannot find another one that would suit it better.

Everything's changing now. It's all patrol cars and fewer feet on the beat. I hope they know what they're doing.

Just because you have traveled a path doesn't mean that you are meant to be on that path forever. That path is only useful to you as long as it retains its ability to support your growth. You can only hold on to something that you've outlived for so long before the universe will take it away from you.

When asked by the New York Times why she altered her position, she quoted the great economist John Maynard Keynes: "when the facts change, I change my mind.

Although the Indian's ancient way of life had never been as rich as they remembered it, that life had been one they understood. But now, it was gone. . . . And for them, the age of hope was ended.

I had been wrong about him Tuesday when I figured that he had always been fifty years old and always would be. He had already put on at least five years, and he had shrunk. Instead of tagging him a neat little squirt I would now call him a magnified beetle.

These smokes can take it, they're used to it.

One foot remained rooted in our native soil while with our other foot we dug into American soil to anchor ourselves and weather the storm.

The Islamic Reformation is already here. We are all living in it.

Resistance to anything is like trying to change the outside pictures after they have been transmitted. It's a futile pursuit.