Adaptations Quotes
43 quotes by 40 authors
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All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations…
— Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.
— Carl Rogers
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The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
— Michael Gazzaniga
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The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through each part, occasionally…
— Charles Darwin
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Every living thing is an elaboration of a single original plan. As humans we are mere increments - each of us a musty archive of…
— Bill Bryson
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I see only adaptations - not revolutions.
— Gordon Getty
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remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do…
— Maya Angelou
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Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.
— Frank Darabont
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Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.
— Ronald A. Heifetz
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I am persuaded to think that any climate change is bad because of the investments and adaptations that have been made by human beings and…
— Fred Singer
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Apart from the hostile influence of man, the organic and the inorganic world are ... bound together by such mutual relations and adaptations s secure,…
— George Perkins Marsh
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I've quit writing screenplay [adaptations]. It's too much work. I don't look at writing a novel as work, because I only have to please myself.…
— Elmore Leonard
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Once we start seeing video games that have more memorable characters, you'll see better movie adaptations.
— David S. Goyer
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Television theatre, as is implied in its name, should rely on adaptations of scripts written for the theatre.
— Andrzej Wajda
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Our common law is the stock instance of a combination of custom and its successive adaptations.
— Learned Hand
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Most writers are unhappy with film adaptations of their work, and rightly so. 'Field of Dreams,' however, caught the spirit and essence of 'Shoeless Joe'…
— W. P. Kinsella
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I found, through the process of doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower,' that I really love directing movies and I love writing books and…
— Stephen Chbosky
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