Quotes About Adaptation

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.

Kalau Kristen jangan kebarat-baratan, kalau Islam jangan kearab-araban

Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.

My mom didn't ever think I would take to acting because I was a very shy, very reserved kind of child. But obviously, something changed!

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Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.

The price of training is always a certain "trained incapacity": the more we know how to do something, the harder it is to learn to do it differently.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views…. I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free.

I think the necessity of being ready increases. Look to it.

I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole.

By the time I learned to say "Six-inch number seven on rye with Swiss hold the lettuce," the sound, too, was gone. It became part of what the mind would label silence. You were now subsumed into the superorganism. The

People change, you know. When you leave your country, you are like a plant taken out of soil. Some people turn hard, they can't flower again.

People said that man had changed: the weakness of people's health no longer allows us to fast. Was it true?

It's funny when you're a kid how you can acclimate to almost anything.

Ultimately, the problem we face is confronting a twenty-third-century dilemma armed only with a thirteenth-century mind. Our project of civilization has been successful on scales we could not have imagined when we began it ten millennia ago. But with that success has come consequences that will last for centuries.

For about the first two billion years of Earth's history, its atmosphere contained only minute traces of oxygen, even though it had long been a home to life. For

We breathe in our first language, and swim in our second.

we swim in our second language, we breathe in our first

If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse." Instead, creators ought to build a car and see if customers will drive it.