Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight. — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Making comic adaptations means making a lot of choices - you need to adjust the pacing, the dialogue, and in this case,… — Raina Telgemeier Copy Share Image
I guess I've never really done a straight adaptation. It's been more like 'in the spirit of,' you know? — Lynne Ramsay Copy Share Image
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not… — Joseph Black Copy Share Image
God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest,… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to… — Alfred de Vigny Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those… — Dave Smalley Copy Share Image
A great novel is concerned primarily with the interior lives of its characters as they respond to the inconvenient narratives that fate… — Richard Schickel Copy Share Image
We're facing enormous changes in our planetary life, with climate change and the adaptations that all natural systems are going to have… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The… — Jonathan Rottenberg Copy Share Image
Resilience, timing, adaptation - these are the three pillars upon which the emergent properties of interacting systems rest. When the systems are… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
Curiously enough, the only two plays that I've done very much revision on were the two adaptations - even though the shape… — Edward Albee Copy Share Image
Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims… — Michael Ruse Copy Share Image
Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers… — Thomas Wolfe Copy Share Image
“It seems comfortable to sink down on a sofa in a corner, to look, to listen. Then it happens that two figures… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I'm very pessimistic about adaptations from one medium to another. I've got a very kind of primitive, Puritan view of it. I… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“Long term exposure to abnormally high levels of lightning may trigger genetic adaptation processes in the human.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
I've always been open to the idea of an adaptation that does its own thing, that freely diverges from the original as… — Bryan Lee O'Malley Copy Share Image
David Benioff can hardly be classified as an underdog. The 2002 film adaptation of his first novel, 'The 25th Hour,' was directed… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
“To others, I am as they perceive me, and they address me based on their preferences. I have no objection to people's… — Suman Pokhrel Copy Share Image
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French… — Warren Christopher Copy Share Image
Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations. — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Q: Have you been released or are you still a Beta version? A: No official release of myself will ever follow! Q:… — Rossana Condoleo Copy Share Image
Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
The differences you perceive between Humans-between groups of Humans-are the result of isolation and inbreeding, mutation, and adaptation to different Earth environments — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action… — Ernst Haeckel Copy Share Image
Most adaptations of plays I hate, because they don't envision something as cinema at all, you know? — Mark Waters Copy Share Image
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This is the… — Laozi Copy Share Image