...shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle. Indeed of the whole realm… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
The respiratory mechanisms of birds are definitely adapted to the function of flight, as evidenced by the fact that birds which do… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
We should be concerned about the impact of climate change on vulnerable populations, without question. There is nothing automatic about adaptation. But… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I do think that theater is a great venue for science fiction, and not just adaptations but also original work. I also… — Edward Einhorn Copy Share Image
“...I think a book adaptation doesn't have to be just like the book, it has to feel like the book. That's what… — Kate Egan Copy Share Image
To wade in marshes and sea margins is the destiny of certain bird, and they are so accurately made for this that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are definitely recurring themes in humanity's relationship with our environment. The biggest is probably adaptation, because humans are incredibly good at… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved… — Adam Rutherford Copy Share Image
Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how… — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you write an original, its like you went in and dug a well, and you hit oil. But an adaptation, its… — Brian Helgeland Copy Share Image
So getting that balance between what is honoring scripture and the Word and also acknowledging the fact that by the virtue of… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
By separating the function of adaptation from the function of maintaining the integrity of individual genes, sex allows much greater diversity while… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Even quicker than the development of super-technology is the human adaptation to taking it for granted. We live in a world where… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry… — David Schwimmer Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Agricultural practice served Darwin as the material basis for the elaboration of his theory of Evolution, which explained the natural causation of… — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“I consider myself fortunate that I spent three years working at 7,775 feet before spending five years working at 13,796 feet on… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The hedonic treadmill is one example of the common human trait of adaptation. Studies of human response to positive and negative events… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences. When the… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“Our environment has changed so that the correlations we relied upon in the environment of evolutionary adaptation no longer obtain. This makes… — Joseph Heath Copy Share Image
“Why I am Passionate and Dedicated 1000% to producing and bringing my books Loving Summer, Bitter Frost, and other book series to… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
A complete theory of evolution must acknowledge a balance between "external" forces of environment imposing selection for local adaptation and "internal" forces… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have… — Elmore Leonard Copy Share Image
“What brings us anywhere? You take one turn instead of another, you meet one woman instead of another, you have good health… — Ward Just Copy Share Image
Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil,… — Uwe Boll Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share Image
![“Baz [Luhrmann] paid me one of the greatest compliments ever. I don't know him, really, but when I first met him I was congratulating him on ROMEO + JULIET - which I think is a wonderful adaptation - and he said, "Oh, well we couldn't have done it without your RICHARD III, which was an…” quote by Ian Mckellen](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/105/ian-mckellen-1396_adaptation_baz-luhrmann-paid-me-one-of-the-greatest_2176844.jpg)
![“I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself. I have a good time sitting here by myself, thinking up situations and characters, getting them to talk - it's so satisfying. But screenwriting's different…” quote by Elmore Leonard](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/396/elmore-leonard-3471_adaptation_i-ve-quit-writing-screenplay-adaptations_2640851.jpg)
![“Everybody says video-game adaptations are all the same, but I disagree. Normally, video-game adaptations are like Alone In The Dark, Resident Evil, Alien Vs. Predator - sci-fi creature stuff. But I think I've covered] a wide range of genres and time periods, like Transylvania in 1700 and now a…” quote by Uwe Boll](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b5d/uwe-boll-13543_adaptation_everybody-says-video-game-adaptations-ar_696145.png)
