Quotes About Adaptation

At each stage...entirely new laws, concepts and generalizations are necessary, requiring inspiration and creativity to just as great a degree as in the previous one.

Christianity has always had sort of an ability to absorb the developments in science. But, it's always done it very slowly.

To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.

Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

Steam is no stronger now than it was a hundred years ago but it is put to better use.

It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.

A day ago, the sight of a man removing his face would have blown thick chunks of Aiden's mind out the back of his head, but not today. Today Aiden was fresh out of shock and running low on wonder.

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.

Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.

Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new

Too many of our preferences reflect nasty behaviours and states of mind that were genetically adaptive in the ancestral environment. Instead, wouldn't it be better if we rewrote our own corrupt code?

Last century's magic is this year's science.

Intelligence is the ability to harness the powers of the surrounding world without destroying the said world

I lost an arm on my last trip home. My left arm.

Survival is insufficient

There was something built into the human brain by natural selection which was once useful, and which now manifests itself as religion.

Any constituency that needs amending, is a prototype in error.

The radiation detoxification process exists in nature. It is called: Hibernation.

The secrets of evolution, are time and death. There's an unbroken thread that stretches from those first cells to us.

I'm doing now with cornets exactly what I used to do with trilobites: measuring, analyzing and cataloging the myriad gradations of their forms.

Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless.