Adaptation Quotes

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The great problems of lifeâ€”sexuality, of course, among othersâ€”are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or… — Carl Jung
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem… — Thomas A. Edison
The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the… — Dave Smalley
When one looks back over human existence however, it is very evident that all culture has developed through an initial resistance against adaptation to the… — Beatrice M. Hinkle
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of… — Octavio Paz
A pattern of shared basic assumptions invented, discovered, or developed by a given group as it learns to cope with its problems of external adaptation… — Edgar Schein
Translation is a kind of transubstantiation; one poem becomes another. You can choose your philosophy of translation just as you choose how to live: the… — Anne Michaels
Homosexuality is not 'normal' On the contrary it is a challenge to the norm...Nature exists whether academics like it or not. And in nature, procreation… — Camille Paglia
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws… — Ernst Haeckel
A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge. — Joseph Black
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film. — Norman Jewison
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization. — Larry Constantine
A cockroach canâ€™t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One… — Georges St-Pierre
If we do not act to curb climate change immediately, we will leave our children and grandchildren an unrecognizable planetIt is the poor, those least… — Jim Yong Kim
Hinduism would not be eternal were it not constantly growing and spreading, and taking in new areas of experience. Precisely because it has this power… — Sister Nivedita
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement, — Barry Eisler
Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers. — John Tooby
True freedom, which is full joy, is the complete recognition of law and adaptation to it. Bondage comes from ignorance of law or opposition to… — John Andreas Widtsoe

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