Quotes About Adaptation

I firmly believe that if science proves scriptures wrong, then the scriptures should be changed. The Buddha himself says that understanding must come through investigation logic and reasoning. Not just faith.

Nothing ever stops; it divides and multiplies, and I guess sometimes it gets ground down superfine, but it doesn't just blow away.

Play the game, but play it your own way – part of the time at least. Play the game, but raise the ante, my boy. Learn how it operates, learn how you operate.

You start Saul, and end up Paul, my grandfather had often said. When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul -- though you still Sauls around on the side.

I want you to overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destruction, let 'em swoller you till they vomit or bust wide open.

You start Saul, and end up Paul,' my grandfather had often said. 'When you're a youngun, you Saul, but let life whup your head a bit and you starts to trying to be Paul – though you still Sauls around on the side.

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Every wall is a door.

People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

Everything teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein is human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.

The civilized man has built a coach, but has lost the use of his feet.

Children are all foreigners.

Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

We go to Europe to be Americanized.

why should we grope among the dry bones of the past, or put the living generation into masquerade out of its faded wardrobe? The sun shines to-day also. There

Meantime nature is not slow to equip us in the prison uniform of the party to which we adhere. We come to wear one cut of face and figure, and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expression.

Life is an experiment. The more experiments the better

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.

The god of the cannibals will be a cannibal, of the crusaders a crusader, and of the merchants a merchant.

This surface on which we now stand is not fixed, but sliding.

The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics.

There are no fixtures in nature. The universe is fluid and volatile.