Adaptive Quotes
46 quotes by 46 authors
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Childhood is a complex dialectical process characterized by periodicity, unevenness in the development of different functions, metamorphosis or qualitative transformation of one form into another,…
— Lev S. Vygotsky
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In the course of individual development, inherited characters appear, in general, earlier than adaptive ones, and the earlier a certain character appears in ontogeny, the…
— Ernst Haeckel
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some new mutation or…
— Julian Huxley
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Economists have the correct insight that economics is a theory of choice, the key to the story is the variety of options and centralised political…
— Douglass North
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Effective use of Braille is as important to the blind as independent mobility, knowledge in the use of adaptive technology, and the core belief that…
— Bob Ney
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Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of its own in human experience.
— Johan Huizinga
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The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.
— Dick Morris
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Most of the vices and mortal sins condemned today correspond to inclinations that were purely adaptive or at least harmless in primitive man
— Konrad Lorenz
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Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not…
— George Gaylord Simpson
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And it has been the paleontologist- my own breed-who have been most responsible for letting ideas dominate reality: ...We paleontologist have said that the history…
— Niles Eldredge
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A terrific, stimulating book...Ramalingam clearly and engagingly shows how the use of complex adaptive systems thinking can significantly strengthen and enhance the impacts and effectiveness…
— Jerry Sabloff
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United decidedly is not an innovative, adaptive organization.
— Adam Hartung
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At Adaptive Path, we've been doing our own work with Ajax over the last several months, and we're realizing we've only scratched the surface of…
— Jesse James Garrett
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Exercising adaptive leadership is about giving meaning to your life beyond your own ambition.
— Ronald A. Heifetz
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Human enhancement is now being driven by military imperatives, at least in the US, because civilian society is more conservative in its approach. It’s a…
— Jessa Gamble
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If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they…
— Kenneth H. Cooper
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Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion…
— John Lahr
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Unintended consequences get to the heart of why you never really understand an adaptive problem until you have solved it. Problems morph and "solutions" often…
— Richard Pascale
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Living in an entirely different physical as well as biotic environment, such a population would have unique opportunities to enter new niches and to select…
— Ernst Mayr
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Organizations that empower folks further down the chain or try to get rid of the big hierarchal chains and allow decision making to happen on…
— Steven Johnson
Who Wrote These Adaptive Quotes
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