Quotes About Adaptation

Religion is a feature of cultural evolution that, among other things, addresses anxieties created by cultural evolution; it helps keep social change safe from itself.

Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will.

If your religion does not change you, then you had better change your religion.

Man is a venerating animal. He venerates as easily as he purges himself. When they take away from him the gods of his fathers he looks for others abroad.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

Achieving control over change, in respect to lifestyle, demands an engagement with the outer social world rather than a retreat from it.

The law must be stable, but it must not stand still.

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

Be brutal with the past, especially your own, and have no respect for the philosophies that are foisted on you from outside.

We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves.

All sudden and violent changes, whatever their causes or character, must tend to decrease the respect for status quo as a natural order of things.

Nature has not fitted man to any specific environment.

It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

The user interface on the iPhone, with all due respect for what this invention was all about is now five years old.

It takes a minute to get use to the TV thing, and I have so much more respect for TV actors now.

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are.

I'd like to always be romantic in chess. Sadly, this doesn't always work like that.

I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .

When would he learn that women never stayed where you put them?

She was like a wound beneath an old bandage, and he had grown more used to the bandage.

I know the world is flat now, I'm not going back.

Things so seldom go exactly the way we plan.

Cuba changed you. I changed you. And you are changing me.

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.