Quotes About Adaptation

Jossi had been slow in agreeing with Ben Yehuda and the others. Hebrew had to be revived. If the desire for national identity was great enough a dead language could be brought back. But Sarah was set in her ways. Yiddish was what she spoke and what her mother had spoken. She had no intention of becoming a scholar so late in life.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

Robert Frost wrote in 1914, "Why abandon a belief / Merely because it ceases to be true.

Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.

Our species had to engage in complex cooperative behavior in order to survive in the wild, and—as I keep reminding my teenage children—pointing and grunting get you only so far.

paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies—and died younger—than the populations of human foragers who preceded them.

along with our responses to them, determine

Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or "Wise, Wise Man.

We can focus on the ability to react to events rather than relying on the ability to predict them, on qualities like flexibility, confidence, courage, and perseverance.

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Evolution has provided us with an unconscious mind because our unconscious is what allows us to survive in a world requiring such massive information intake and processing.

It's the best possible time to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong. —Tom Stoppard, Arcadia, 1993

Humans usually try to guess the pattern, and in the process we allow ourselves to be outperformed by a rat.

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to keep control of some important aspects of one's life despite an environment that seemed overwhelming.

the elasticity of our thinking allows us to move beyond the existing world of our senses and invent new concepts.

in 1958, the average life span of companies in the S&P 500 was sixty-one years. Today it is about twenty.

Dr. Melvin Connors sums it up nicely in just three words: culture stretches biology

In time and with water, everything changes

Perché la minestra si fredda.

I have no fears about making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

Many of the men we wanted were used to living in cities or near large metropolitan areas and were a bit dubious about the prospects of life in a remote, sparsely populated area. We had somewhat similar trouble with the engineering people, although they were not so concerned at being isolated.

How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?

I knew who I was this morning, but I've changed a few times since then.