Quotes About Adaptation

Relationships are such that if one person changes, the relationship changes.

Our creation is the modification of relationship.

The newly rich lost their balance and their stolidity, becoming as giddy and frivolous and aggressive as the worst.

Why was it, he wondered, that all these stories envisaged technological marvels by the bushel, but seemed to assume that social structure and culture wouldn't change in over four centuries? (Chad Oliver, "The Ant and the Eye")

I pondered all these things, and how men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that they fought for comes about in spite of their defeat, and when it comes turns out not to be what they meant, and other men have to fight for what they meant under another name.

But if the ants are not despondent because they have failed to produce a new social invention or convention in 65 million years, why should we be discouraged because some of our institutions and castes have not been able to evolve a new idea in the past fifty centuries?

I am as I am. The world is as it is. Whether I am content with that has very little to do with it.

He accepted what each moment brough him, and never troubled himself with matters that were outside his control.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

Evolution is not humane, but we could be.

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Toda cultura es provisional, porque siempre otra cultura está al acecho. Toda cultura es tanteo, exploración, experimento, y siempre sabemos que del descubrimiento del error y de la conciencia del error puede nacer lo nuevo.

Job, behold the Snout: Even when the pond dries up, it is not alarmed. It remains confident, even above the face of the waters. Do not mock the Snout, Job, for in three hundred and seventy-five million years, its face would be your own.

Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

One more thing about evolution. They keep saying that it's chance, all chance, and that it's simple. Billions of fish kept

If I stayed a football player, my career would have been over 20 years ago. As it is, my knees are shot. I found I got the same good feeling in acting that I had in sports, but I found I could have a more profound impact on people.

I didn't want to play a lawyer. I didn't want to play a doctor. I didn't want to play a single dad. I wanted to do something I felt I could learn from, something that would be a challenge and something that would not dry up.

Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its period. When there is an incompatibility between the style and a certain state of mind, it is never the style that triumphs.

Folks began to sit down along the curb, leaning against the odd assortment of old vehicles folks had retrofitted to function again after the EMP burst had blown out the electronics.

Promote a troublesome thorn up and out of the way if you cannot crush him, and then, once gone, impose whatever was planned in the first place.

Nature takes away any faculty that is not used.