Quotes About Adaptation

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin – only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Las posturas necesarias te impiden adaptarte. Inevitablemente, crecen de forma inestable, inclinándose e inclinándose en un ángulo cada vez más acusado hasta que terminan derrumbándose. Es como los banqueros pensando que compran el futuro. «¡El poder en mi tiempo!» «¡Al diablo con mis descendientes!»

The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

You see me, Father? I am a desert creature.

You'll acquire the blue eyes and a callus beside your lovely nose from the filter tube to your stillsuit.

For the others, we can say that Muad'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn.

La burocrazia distrugge l'iniziativa. Poche sono le cose che i burocrati odiano più delle innovazioni, specialmente quelle innovazioni che producano risultati migliori delle vecchie abitudini. I miglioramenti fanno sempre sembrare inetti quelli che sono in cima al mucchio. A chi piace sentirsi inetto?

Below her, a Fremen work gang appeared. They climbed to the sietch's middle entrance, and she saw that they had muddy feet. Fremen with muddy feet!

the secret of community lies in suppression of the incompatible.

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Nimic nu-i pierdut pentru totdeauna. Totul se întoarce dup? o vreme, dar s-ar putea s? nu recunoÅŸti forma schimbat? care revine.

Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.

The Fremen have a saying they credit to Shai-hulud, Old Father Eternity," he said. "They say: 'Be prepared to appreciate what you meet.

Multe erori grave de guvernare sunt pricinuite de teama de a realiza schimb?ri interne radicale, chiar È™i când necesitatea lor este clar perceput?.

The expectations which history creates for one generation are often shattered in the next generation.

Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.

How the mind gears itself for its environment

It is said of Muad'Dib that once when he saw a weed trying to grow between two rocks, he moved one of the rocks. Later, when the weed was seen to be flourishing, he covered it with the remaining rock. "That was its fate," he explained. —THE COMMENTARIES

You must think like a patch of sand. Hide beneath your cloak and become a little dune in your very essence.

A process cannot be understood by stopping it. Understanding must move with the flow of the process, must join it and flow with

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

Then he saw the human figures moving into the flower fields, sweeping them with strange scythelike devices—dew gatherers. Water so precious here that even the dew must be collected.

He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe.