Quotes About Adaptation

It's crucial to understand that as a society, we can reorganize. We can reorganize socially, politically, and economically, and we can reorganize according to our values.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

If you want an open society, you have to put up with the chaos.

Until we become the architects of a society that is truly free and ecological, it will always seem that when the human brain is not adaptive, it is more often destructive than creative.

Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the other. Society acquires new arts, and loses old instincts.

American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.

You can shoot the tiger, or stay out of his way, but you cannot pronounce him a vegetarian.

We've got to start thinking of school as a lifelong process. That's the only way we'll keep abreast and be able to share in the wealth of the new "knowledge society."

I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way.

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

I think we foreshorten our own viewpoint if we consider any state of mind, or society, or government as final. Growth and change! We can't get away from them.

It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today.

Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

One ought not to hoard culture. It should be adapted and infused into society as a leaven. Liberality of culture does not mean illiberality of its benefits.

Whenever you see a man who is successful in society, try to discover what makes him pleasing, and if possible adopt his system.

The surplus of society overrides all our traditions and shapes all our philosophies.

Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

That a good fit between parental handling and child temperament is vital to help children adapt to the imperatives of their society is a crucial concept that can be applied to other cultures.

One of the biggest changes in our society is the shift from prevention to reaction.

Society is an artificial construction, a defense against nature's power.

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

Shri Ramakrishna use to say, "As Long as I Live, so long do I learn". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death.

When one historical period is replaced by another, there is always a group of people left over from the old society

If you change the society and a culture, the politics will follow.