Quotes About Adaptation

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

But God doesn't change. Men do, though. What difference does that make? All the difference in the world.

Every change is a menace to stability.

the social body persists although the component cells may change.

No deseamos cambios. Todo cambio constituye una amenaza para la estabilidad.

If you give experience a chance, if you're prepared to go along with it, the results are incomparably more therapeutic and transforming.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

The Savage, wrote Bernard in his report to Mustapha Mond, shows surprisingly little astonishment at, or awe of, civilized inventions. This is partly due, no doubt, to the fact that he has heard them talked about by the woman Linda, his m---. (Mustapha Mond frowned. Does the fool think I'm too squeamish to see the word written out at full length?)

in the psychological equivalent of Australia.

The lizards died of having too much body and too little head,' said Rampion in explanation.'so at least the scientists are never tired of telling us. Physical size is a handicap after a certain point. But what about mental size? These fools seem to forget that they're just as top-heavy and clumsy and disproportioned as any diplodocus. Sacrificing physical life and affective life to mental life. What do they imagine's going to happen?

Free as a bird', we say, and envy the winged creatures for their power of unrestricted movement in all three dimensions. But, alas, we forget the dodo. Any bird that has learned how to grub up a good living without being compelled to use its wings will soon renounce the privilege of flight and remain forever grounded.

The past is not something fixed and unalterable. Its facts are re-discovered by every succeeding generation, its values re-assessed, its meanings re-defined in the context of present tastes and preoccupations.

As long as we try to fit facts to theories instead of adopting the scientific attitude of altering the theories (when necessary) to fit the facts, we shall remain mired in falsehood.

The things that worry the pedestrian worry us not at all; but to control a new element your Yama must be that biological principle of adaptation to the new conditions, adjustment of the faculties to those conditions, and consequent success in those conditions

Hoy el inglés se ha convertido en un idioma tan importante que hasta los norteamericanos van a tener que aprenderlo.

Por mucho que las cosas cambien, si no las miras, si no tiendes la mano para tocarlas, nunca te darás cuenta de que ya no son las que eran. No pasará nada.

People, these strange animals who walk on their rear paws and are naturally naked, so they have to wear other animal's skins to keep warm, are ridiculously clumsy and helpless.

Ma noi non possiamo accorgerci di quanto sia assurdo perché come rettili di palude conosciamo quel mondo, e la palude per noi é la normalità Per questo siamo in grado di metabolizzare incredibili dosi di infelicità scambiandole per il doveroso corso delle cose [...]

Tal vez la vida, a veces, te cambia de una forma que no hay nada más que decir.

Perchè ciò che si salverà non sarà mai quel che abbiamo tenuto al riparo dai tempi, ma ciò che abbiamo lasciato mutare, perchè ridiventasse se stessi un un tempo nuovo.

Siamo gente schizofrenica, che al mattino ragione come Hegel, e dopo pranzo si muta in pesce, e respira con le branchie.

Kakav si kao dijete takav ?eš ostati do kraja života, ne po?injemo ispo?etka da bismo se promijenili. Po?injemo ispo?etka da bismo promenili stol, rekla je. Neprestano mislimo da smo se zatekli u pogrešnoj partiji i da bismo s našim kartama mogli bog zna što uraditi samo ako sjednemo za drugi stol.

Passionate impulses are not for mollusks, especially us snails. I had rashes on my squamae, and my mesenchyma was in pieces. With the end of the reproductive season, the hormonal levels had dropped, and the romantic agitations had dropped with them. Youth had vanished, and my mucus was drying up.

A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous.