Quotes About Adaptation

Somewhere, Charles Darwin nodded and smiled a knowing smile.

His house had burned down. That meant he needed … everything. Clothes. Heartburn pills. Replacement contact lenses in case he lost one. Dandruff shampoo. Some Oreos. A book.

A mask of feigned nonchalance. It took practice to come up with that look. Somebody who had been shamed so many times that he'd adapted to simply never showing it, rather than changing to not do things he was ashamed of.

We can't see around walls, we can't see heat or cold, we can't see electricity or radio signals, we can't see at a distance. It is a sense so limited that we might as well not have it, yet we have evolved to depend so heavily on it as a species that all other perception has atrophied.

Molly had moved when the rest of the world was still,

With every new moment, he was no longer the man he'd been the moment before.

Never stop working on yourself. You can't change other people but you definitely can change yourself.

Nobody ever decided anything. Situations were solved only by other situations.

Quantunque degli esseri umani avessi un terrore mortale, sembravo assolutamente incapace di rinunciare alla loro compagnia. M'ingegnai a mantenere a fior di pelle un sorriso che non abbandonò le mie labbra un instante; fu questo l'accomodamento che offrivo alla gente.

Looking around, I wonder what is it that makes my fellows able to bear such a life. How can they face the day, when I can't? Is there some secret to living that makes its conditions irrelevant? A neutering of expectation, a mastery of the mundane? Or have they just grown accustomed to rape?

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Even the mantis has stopped praying

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.

creativity is our only weapon against entropy

Karate is like hand sanitizer. It needs...flow.

The city needs a car like a fish needs a bicycle.

An innovation is one of those things that society looks at and says, if we make this part of the way we live and work, it will change the way we live and work.

People don't dislike change, they dislike being changed.

Plants develop poison as a protection against predation. Should I keep one out simply because it has learnt better than its brothers how to defend itself? Roses have thorns and yet no one ever thinks to ban them from a garden for being prickly.

Second rule of the bush. Never get too close to anything that has offspring. What's the first rule? Food runs. If you don't want to be food, don't run.

Australia is full of unsuitable people—you will fit in beautifully.

He believed, like all good radicals, that everything ought to be examined anew by each generation. What served society should be retained, and what did not should be discarded without sentiment or reserve.

The desert doesn't care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.

Things that came apart could be put together again, but never exactly the same.