Quotes About Modification

Everything gets smaller over time. Computers, phones, apples, knives, souls.

You see, doing one thing differently is very often

It is only when the pain of perpetuating old behavior patterns is perceived to be greater than the pain brought about by trying to change those patterns that we are able to effect and sustain significant psychological and behavioral modifications.

The life of thought transforms its own notions. Would not a thought in equilibrium actually be an absence of thought? Thought should be known in states of equilibrium, but in relative and nonfinal states of equilibrium. We know that our most profound convictions will be completed and modified by our future experiences. All equilibrium of thought contains in itself an evolutionary seef.

Negative feedback always says in effect, "Stop what you're doing, or the way you're doing it—and do something else." Its purpose is to modify response, or change the degree of forward action—not to stop all action. Negative feedback does not say, "Stop—period!" It says, "What you are doing is wrong," but it does not say, "It is wrong to do anything.

To save the human race and our world, we must correct the evolutionary mistakes by changing the genetics of men.

It never got easier, it just got different.

One aspect of English which has been a recurring feature in its history is the way a word will be adapted from one age to another so that a 'chip' can go from wood to silicon, include golf and a slight and feature as fifty per cent of a British diet.

I mean, we're really making a quantum change in our relationship to the plant world with genetic modification.

And once begun, change cannot be reversed.

you don't really have to know all that much yourself; you just do it differently than it was done before.

transmogrification

he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Progress is relatively fast in fields that apply knowledge to the material world, such as physics or genetics. But it is painfully slow when knowledge is to be applied to modify our own habits and desires.

For example, your tenant in a wheelchair wants to widen the doorways, lower the bathroom and kitchen countertops, and perhaps install a ramp. The ADA pretty much says you must allow your tenant to make these changes at their expense, providing they return your unit to its original condition when they move out.

less so than their predecessors.

We have changed all that.

Science does this all the time. People who work at the cutting edge in, say, physics are constantly adjusting their big picture, sometimes modifying it quite radically

Nothing last forever except change

It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.

It is most unusual to return to a place that has changed in ways you yourself have altered.

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.

High-protein diets can cause elevated levels of aggression, especially territorial aggression such as Bailey was showing. So Jack and Sarah needed to change Bailey's diet.