Quotes About Adaptation

I think apparatus burned out all over the ward trying to adjust to her come busting in like she did-took electronic readings on her and calculated they weren't built to handle something like this on the ward, and just burned out, like machines committing suicide.

The trouble with superheroes is what to do between phone booths.

Technology is a Beautiful Thing.... When It Works...........

evolution meanders more than it progresses. But over the long haul, evolution has a broad telos, a broad direction, which is particularly obvious with increasing differentiation—an atom to an amoeba to an ape!

Ancient laws remain in force long after the people have the power to change them.

Control over change would seem to consist in moving not with it but ahead of it. Anticipation gives the power to deflect and control force.

Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

I recreate myself; that is my only power.

We overreached our decision power. Sometimes our decisions have to fit the reality of the outside world.

Something I learned very early on in my career is that there are a lot of things that you do not have any power over.

As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.

Change provides us with experiences that we convert to personal power.

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

Creatures which, lacking mankind's superior brain power, did not concern themselves with finding someone to blame, and instead tried to find someone to eat.

When someone in power declares that something is broken that means it's actually fine. What they're really saying is, "Let's change this so I like it and ruin it." Nothing is ever broken.

No power was total, no power permanent, no power absolute.

I understand the power of the internet, but I can't say that I'm there. I'm old-fashioned and living in a different century. I don't know. I just don't really understand the craze of it.

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise.

Power resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state.

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

Many a man's strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.