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Quotes About Adaptation

Ovo je promjenjiv svemir, a mi smo najneobi?nija promjena od svih. Mi treperenjem odgovaramo na mnoge utjecaje. Našim budu?nostima treba stalno obnavljanje podataka.
~ Frank Herbert
Even in the most barren wasteland, a flower always grows. Recognize this, and learn to adapt to your surroundings. -Dr. Bryce Haynes (planetary ecologist assigned to study Duneworld)
~ Frank Herbert
There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.
~ Frank Herbert
Leto spoke the truth: Muad'Dib had changed all that. Stilgar felt lost.
~ Frank Herbert
We change our past by what we learn.
~ Frank Herbert
The willow submits to the wind and prospers until one day it is many willows—a wall against the wind.
~ Frank Herbert
forever seeking, forever prepared and forever unready.
~ Frank Herbert
Persoana capabil? s? ia un lucru banal È™i obiÈ™nuit pentru a-l prezenta într-o nou? lumin? are darul de a însp?imânta. Nu vrem ca ideile noastre s? fie schimbate. Ne simÈ›im ameninÈ›aÈ›i de asemenea tentative. ?tiu deja tot ce-i important de È™tiut! spunem noi. Apoi apare Schimb?torul È™i r?stoarn? toate vechile noastre idei.
~ Frank Herbert
History is a constant race between invention and catastrophe.
~ Frank Herbert
He's taking the change well? She asked. Except for getting a bit overtired. He's excited, but what 15-year-old wouldn't be under these circumstances?
~ Frank Herbert
Law must retain useful ways to break with traditional forms because nothing is more certain than that the forms of Law remain when all justice is gone. — Gowachin aphorism
~ Frank Herbert
Maturity imposes its own behavior. One of our lessons—make those imperatives available to consciousness. Modify instincts.
~ Frank Herbert
Sje?anje nikada ne obnavlja stvarnost. Ono je samo preure?uje. Sva ta preure?enja mijenjaju original, postaju?i na taj na?in vanjski okviri za preporuke koje neizbježno brzo propadaju.
~ Frank Herbert
În ceea ce îi priveÅŸte pe oameni, întrebarea este nu cîÅ£i pot supravieÅ£ui în cadrul sistemului, ci ce fel de existen?? va fi posibil? pentru cei ce vor supravieÅ£ui.
~ Frank Herbert
Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power.
~ Frank Herbert
But it was unlike any other drug of her experience, and Bene Gesserit training included the taste of many drugs.
~ Frank Herbert
Major flaws in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.
~ Frank Herbert
With a Fremen suit in good working order, you won't lose more than a thimbleful of moisture a day—even if you're caught in the Great Erg.
~ Frank Herbert
He had taken his place in a universe he did not want, wearing flesh that did not fit.
~ Frank Herbert
Most deadly errors arise from obsolete assumptions
~ Frank Herbert
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
~ Frank Herbert
So you're not a child," Jessica said. "I'm millions of years old. That requires adjustments which humans have never before been called upon to make.
~ Frank Herbert
Our supremacy on Caladan," the Duke said, "depended on sea and air power. Here, we must develop something I choose to call desert power. This
~ Frank Herbert
Necessary rules and laws keep you from adapting. Inevitably, everything comes crashing down. It's like bankers thinking they buy the future. 'Power in my time! To hell with my descendants!'" "What are descendants doing for me?
~ Frank Herbert