Quotes About Adaptation

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

I am no longer what I was. I will remain what I have become.

Cognition modifies the knower so as to adapt him harmoniously to his acquired knowledge.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

Young bodies are like tender plants, which grow and become hardened to whatever shape you've trained them.

Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.

If you have the right knowledge you can substitute it for all the other facts of production

Knowledge is no longer an immobile solid; it has been liquefied. it is actively moving in all the currents of society itself

At the age of 18 I don't think that I thought very differently than I did at the age of 25. I think we instinctively have the knowledge and adapt the knowledge we need.

Men forget where the way leads and what they meet with every day seems strange to them.We should not act and speak like men asleep.

Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge

Knowledge keeps no better than fish.

The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present.

Every advance in knowledge and technique is matched by a new kind of death, a new strain. Death adapts, like a viral agent.

Knowledge is information that changes something or somebody - either by becoming grounds for actions, or by making an individual (or an institution) capable of different or more effective action.

Like anything else, knowledge must evolve.

Abstract knowledge is not enough. At the end of the day, it's about how one reacts to circumstances in an extreme real-time situation.

Knowledge cannot be changed, but the use to which it may be put can very easily be changed.

Some creatures are made to see in the dark.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear and merge into something else.

Random thought fills the streambed, cascading with care and spilling over the flood plain until bifurcation forces it to arc and fork into a single, determined stream.

I'm tired of entirely new things, " Tremaine said. "I don't understand most of the old things yet.

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