Quotes About Adaptation

The British people have decided to leave. It is a sad decision but one which I respect. The vote puts the European Union in difficulties. It must recognise its shortfalls.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.

Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

I believe there is no philosophical high-road in science, with epistemological signposts. No, we are in a jungle and find our way by trial and error, building our road behind us as we proceed.

Given any rule, however ?fundamental? or ?necessary? for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.

This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything; it can even lead to vision itself.

Life is an art, not a science. You make it up as you go along.

If we are to achieve things never before accomplished we must employ methods never before attempted

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

For one person who is blessed with the power of invention, many will always be found who have the capacity of applying principles.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

The proper use of science is not to conquer nature but to live in it.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

As the saying goes, the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; we transitioned to better solutions. The same opportunity lies before us with energy efficiency and clean energy.

The difference between the amoeba and Einstein is that, although both make use of the method of trial and error elimination, the amoeba dislikes erring while Einstein is intrigued by it.

Obsolescence is a fate devoutly to be wished, lest science stagnate and die.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.