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Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were moving…

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Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still…
The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human…
If a sect does officially insist that its structure of belief demands that evolution be false, then no compromise is possible. An…
It remains true, as every paleontologist knows, that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level…
I have a debt, a loyalty to the museum; the best place for me to do what I wanted to do.
It is inherent in any definition of science that statements that cannot be checked by observation are not really saying anything or…
The search for historical laws is, I maintain, mistaken in principle.
The science of systematics has long been affected by profound philosophical preconceptions, which have been all the more influential for being usually…
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for…
Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because…
Man is the result of a purposeless and natural process that did not have him in mind
Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if…

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Adapting is a common natural way for people to adapt to their environment. — Joe Barton
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances. — Samuel Butler
I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me. — Paula Abdul
Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. — Jackie Chan
Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions,… — Eleanor Roosevelt
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to… — William James
The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to… — Wassily Kandinsky
Sport is not about being wrapped up in cotton wool. Sport as about adapting to the unexpected and being able to modify… — Roger Bannister
Adapting to climate change: It really is time for action...we are on a never-ending road; this is with us for the rest… — Unknown Author
Can nine billion people be fed? Can we cope with the demands in the future on water? Can we provide enough energy?… — John Beddington
John Hall, my geography teacher at school inspired me to a lifelong interest in geography and a curiosity about our world which… — Michael Palin
Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret… — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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