Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish. — Jonathan Bailey Copy Share Image
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London. — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
Fortunately, both television adaptations and the film I've been involved with are pieces of work that I'm proud of, so I'm very… — Jenny Agutter Copy Share Image
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
“since many traits can affect an individual's adaptation to it's environment (it's "fitness") natural selection can over eons sculpt an animal or… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
It's very important to understand that the 'Talk' piece was not an excerpt, it was an adaptation, which means I compressed different… — David Brock Copy Share Image
'An Inspector Calls' is a British classic, and I am thrilled to be working on this beautiful screen adaptation with Aisling Walsh. — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
I actually want to do a theatrical adaptation of 'Hateful Eight' because I actually like the idea of other actors having a… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
...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 films that I've done before were original stories most of the time, I did two adaptations before this, but they were… — Walter Salles Copy Share Image
Organic planning does not begin with a preconceived goal; it moves from need to need, from opportunity to opportunity, in a series… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Since my adaptation of Ian McEwan's 'Atonement,' I get sent a lot of novels that people think will work as movies. So… — Christopher Hampton Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
I think nobody would claim that random genetic drift is capable of producing adaptation, that is to say the illusion of design.… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Interestingly, I never thought I'd do an adaptation. I've also been quite against them. I think trying to translate one medium to… — Andrea Arnold Copy Share Image
The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human heart, in… — Thomas B. Macaulay 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
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
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
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