Adaptation Quotes

204 quotes by 182 authors

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity. — H.G. Wells
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable… — Jean M. Auel
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending… — Janet Frame
Since we live in a society that promotes faddism and temporary superficial adaptation of different values, we are easily convinced that changes have occurred in… — Bell Hooks
(before playing Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet) I couldn't really come up with a short way to sum up this song, but… — Pete Wentz
As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six… — Edith Wharton
The difference between a path and a road is not only the obvious one. A path is little more than a habit that comes with… — Wendell Berry
The degree to which a surviving parent copes is the most important indicator of the child's long-term adaptation. Kids whose surviving parents are unable to… — Hope Edelman
The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection,… — Thomas Wolfe
People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. — Lionel Shriver
Writing is a journey into the unknown. — Charlie Kaufman
As natural selection acts by competition, it adapts the inhabitants of each country only in relation to the degree of perfection of their associates; so… — Charles Darwin
The more I think about myself, the more I'm persuaded that, as a person, I really don't exist. That is one of the reasons why… — Christopher Isherwood
Life: a constellation of vital phenomenaâ€”organization, irritability, movement, growth, reproduction, adaptation. — Anthony Marra
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. — John Dewey
Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of… — Stephen Jay Gould
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
For me, the level at which natural selection causes the phenomenon of adaptation is the level of the replicator - the gene. — Richard Dawkins

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