My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Curiously enough man's body and his mind appear to differ in their climatic adaptations. — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
My adaptation on the pitch has gone in parallel with my adaptation to London. — Juan Mata Copy Share Image
“If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you always got.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You can't sign on for a romance novel adaptation and then get prudish. — Jonathan Bailey 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
The most effective adaptation of racism over time is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people. — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
“De wijze heeft geen onwrikbare beginselen. Hij past zich aan anderen aan. (Free translation into English: The wise man has no firm… — Lao-Tse 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
“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
Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. — Ernst Mach Copy Share Image
Vipul Shah wanted me to do the Hindi adaptation of my film 'Kaakha Kaakha.' I declined the offer. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
They give me the money, I give them the book. Having input into the adaptation would be kind of like selling a… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence… — W. P. Kinsella Copy Share Image
Any adaptation - and I've done three in my career. I did 'Sweeney Todd' and 'Hugo' and 'Coriolanus.' It's important to find… — John Logan Copy Share Image
There is much appeal for me in Eastern religion, the little I know of it. And something thorny in me finds American… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
Every mutation through a new combination of genetic factors that provides the organism with a new opportunity for coming to terms with… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“in spite of the phenomenal growth of the Internet and mobile devices, I still believe television will continue to be an incredibly… — Phil Cooke 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
Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct… — Jacques Ellul Copy Share Image
The system functioned relatively automatically, and the prevailing system of racial meanings, identities, and ideologies already seemed natural. Ninety percent of those… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
Mixture of assimilation to earlier schemas and adaptation to the actual conditions of the situation is what defines motor intelligence. But and… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some… — Julian Huxley 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
Upon the publication of Goethe's epic drama, the Faustian legend had reached an almost unapproachable zenith. Although many failed to appreciate, or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“People are panicking about climate change in large part because the media and environmental campaigners tell us to, because politicians overhype the… — Bjorn Lomborg 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
