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Adaptation Quotes by Jacques Ellul
- Totalitarianism extends to whatever touches it...psychological technique, as it operates in the army or in a great industrial plant, entails a direct action on the…
- If man--if each one of us--abdicates his responsibilities with regard to values; if each one of us limits himself to leading a trivial existence in…
More Adaptation Quotes
- Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture… — Carl Rogers
- The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma
- The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately… — Richard Owen
- The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and… — Annie Besant
- Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not look for… — Franz Boas
- 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
- Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the work of… — Georges Clemenceau
- All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi