Quotes About Adaptation

no one of intelligence resents the inevitable.

Moon-Watcher and his companions had no recollection of what they had seen, after the crystal had ceased to cast its hypnotic spell over their minds and to experiment with their bodies. The next day, as they went out to forage, they passed it with scarcely a second thought; it was now part of the disregarded background of their lives. They could not eat it, and it could not eat them; therefore it was not important.

But it had been widely argued that advanced intelligence could never arise in the sea; there were not enough challenges in so benign and unvarying an environment.

No single individual, however eccentric or brilliant, could affect the enormous inertia of a society that had remained virtually unchanged for over a billion years.

I said nothing about men adapting themselves to Mars. Have you ever considered the possibility of Mars meeting us half-way?

His mind wandered, seeking other examples. People—particularly older ones—still spoke of putting film into a camera, or gas into a car. Even the phrase "cutting a tape" was still sometimes heard in recording studios—though that embraced two generations of obsolete technologies.

It is not easy to run a shipping line between destinations that not only change their positions by millions of kilometers every few days, but also swing through a velocity range of tens of kilometers a second. Anything like a regular schedule is out of the question; there are times when one must forget the whole idea and stay in port—or at least in orbit—waiting for the Solar System to rearrange itself for the greater convenience of Mankind.

We wanted you to have a feel for the size of your habitat, in case you needed that to be more comfortable with the design process.

Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.

And even if it never makes it to the big screen, millions of people have watched a very impressive version of the opening in the box office hit Independence Day. So when/if Childhood's End is finally made into a movie, the popcorn set will undoubtedly think we've ripped off I.D.

The toolmakers had been remade by their own tools.

Detachment was all very well, but it could change so easily to indifference.

Evolution and science had come to the same answers; and the work of Nature had lasted longer. At

One day, perhaps, the human race would develop a new aesthetic; generations of artists might arise whose ideals were not based upon the natural forms of Earth molded by wind and water.

And as for the Council—tell it that a road that has once been opened cannot be closed again merely by passing a resolution.' The

Hay una regla que he intentado respetar toda mi vida: no pierdas nunca el sueño por problemas que no está en tu mano resolver.

Nothing is deader than yesterday's science-fiction— and Verne belongs to the day before yesterday.

Durante unos cuantos segundos Moon-Watcher permaneció indeciso ante su nueva víctima, intentando comprender el singular y maravilloso hecho de que el leopardo muerto pudiese matar de nuevo. Ahora él era el amo del mundo, y no estaba del todo seguro que hacer a continuación. Mas ya pensaría en algo.

Myers paused, wondering how Indra was taking all this, how it would affect her feelings toward Franklin. She seemed to have got over her initial shock; she was not, thank God, the hysterical type it was so difficult to do anything with.

For the human body was a bizarre piece of improvisation, full of organs that had been diverted from one function to another, not always very successfully—and even containing discarded items, like the appendix, that were now worse than useless.

When his type vanished, if it ever did, the world would be a safer but less interesting place.

Quando a era do gelo terminou, muitas coisas da vida primitiva do planeta também haviam terminado— inclusive os homens-macaco. Mas estes, diferentes de outros animais, tinham deixado descendentes. Não haviam sido simplesmente extintos, mas sim transformados. Os criadores de instrumentos foram recriados por seus próprios instrumentos.

Lo que la naturaleza puede hacer, también el hombre lo hace, a su modo.

It was a nuisance having to learn Morse—in this age, it seemed such an anachronism, and many were the bitter protests among pilots and space-engineers at the waste of effort. In your whole lifetime, you might need it only once. But that was the point. You would really need it then.