Quotes About Adaptation

Coolidge is a better example of evolution than either Bryan or Darrow, for he knows when not to talk, which is the biggest asset the monkey possesses over the human.

Originally a pupil of Liebig, I became a pupil of Dumas, Gerhardt and Williamson: I no longer belonged to any school.

Well-established theories collapse under the weight of new facts and observations which cannot be explained, and then accumulate to the point where the once useful theory is clearly obsolete.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly in imagination.

A scientist is a man who changes his beliefs according to reality; a theist is a man who changes reality to match his beliefs.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

The days of the digitals are numbered. The metaphor is built into them like a self-destruct mechanism.

Science does not stand still, and neither does philosophy, although the latter has a tendency to walk in circles.

Technology is that which separates us from our environment.

I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.

I often say that research is a way of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.

About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.

If the world is turning, even the church can't stop it; if it isn't turning, nobody can go out and make it turn.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

The world is not bound to get better as a result of new discoveries in science and technology, nor is it bound to get worse, there will simply be new opportunities for making it better or worse.

Uniformity and Evolution are one.

The spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm.