Quotes About Adaptation

Love is like a reptile, you cut off its tail and it grows another one." Kiss Me Judas

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

A hermit is simply a person to whom civilization has failed to adjust itself.

Ah, well! We live and learn, or, anyway, we live.

As llamas have never heard of oxygen, they do not miss it.

Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Very little repetition is needed for a new experience to feel normal!

It is difficult to accept changes for the worse.

Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?")

Pain and noise are biologically set to be signals that attract attention, and depression involves a self-reinforcing cycle of miserable thoughts. There is therefore no adaptation to these conditions.

But the main problem was that we failed to allow for what Donald Rumsfeld famously called the "unknown unknowns

Correcting your predictions may complicate your life

Organisms that treat threats as more urgent than opportunities have a better chance to survive and reproduce.

Valid intuitions develop when experts have learned to recognize familiar elements in a new situation and to act in a manner that is appropriate to it.

Once you adopt a new view of the world (or of any part of it), you immediately lose much of your ability to recall what you used to believe before your mind changed.

If you can't solve a problem, then there is an easier problem you can solve: find it." P

It is easier to change directions in a crisis, but this was not a crisis.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty. However, it is also adaptive for the initial caution

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.

No one really starts anything new, Mrs. Nemur. Everyone builds on other men's failures. There is nothing really original in science. What each man contributes to the sum of knowledge is what counts.