Adaptability Quote by David Grinspoon Download Open image “The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.” — David Grinspoon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adaptability Great Human Nature of man Species
One reason that we're so adaptable is that humans are excellent tool users and homebuilders. When our environment doesn't provide us with something that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“The final and most important point about adaptation is really a crucial caveat: no organism is primarily adapted to be healthy, long- lived, happy,… — Daniel E. Lieberman Copy Share Image
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of a species can slowly change so as to ensure that each individual member can extract from its surroundings the energy needed to maintain its complex structures. This is what natural selection is all about. But it’s… — Steven J. Dick Copy Share
Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What makes humans unique is that evolution gave us the most incredible and sophisticated vision system, motor system, and language system, and they all… — Fei-Fei Li Copy Share Image
“The human blitzkrieg across America testifies to the incomparable ingenuity and the unsurpassed adaptability of Homo sapiens. No other animal had ever moved into… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I think the best SF writers are very aware of what we, in the scientific community, are doing, thinking, and discovering. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If we gutted NASA Earth Science, it wouldn't be NOAA or some other agency that would take the lead. It would be the Chinese… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
When you think about alien intelligences making art, you then have to think about what art is and how bound up it is in… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
What if life is not carbon-based? Can life exist as a gas or a plasma? Could planets or stars in some sense be alive?… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
What I'm interested in is the conversations going on about the Anthropocene and what it means to view ourselves as a part of Earth's… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I do comparative studies of climate evolution, and the interactions between planetary atmosphere and surfaces and their radiation environment, and try to understand the… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
I'd been politically active ever since my parents wheeled me in a stroller in a 'ban the bomb' march in Boston in 1963. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Through space-based climate studies, my colleagues and I have learned that a stable and comfortable climate is not something to take for granted. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
We have all this very clever technology and all these abilities to manipulate the world in all these ways, yet we are faced with… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
The planet Mars - crimson and bright, filling our telescopes with vague intimations of almost-familiar landforms - has long formed a celestial tabula rasa… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Certainly for me, as an astrobiologist, science fiction has played an important role. One of the quandaries of our field is that we are… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Time and time again, our species has escaped existential threats by reinventing ourselves, finding new skills not coded in our genes to survive new… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
My contemplation of life and human nature in that secluded place [cell 54 of Cairo Central Prison] taught me that he who cannot change… — Anwar Sadat Copy Share Image
We'll have a different set of values, and society will adapt. That doesn't mean these changes are all good, just because we will accept… — Robert Reischauer Copy Share Image
I think that human beings have gotten as far as we've gotten because of our adaptability, our ability to adapt, and our ability to… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
“It's a fact— everyone is ignorant in some way or another. Ignorance is our deepest secret. And it is one of the scariest things… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
Thea was still under the belief that public opinion could be placated; that if you clucked often enough, the hens would mistake you for… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
There's a mindset of flexibility and adaptability that comes with us. We don't mind hardship. We don't mind somebody saying, 'Go in and do… — James F. Amos Copy Share Image
“Change is inevitable. Wise leaders anticipate it and adapt quickly.” — Cynthia Rivard Copy Share Image
“Marketing is a never-ending story. It’s about perpetual motion where innovation plays the lead role.” — Stacey Kehoe Copy Share Image
“...such it is with all human sensations that people become gradually used to everything and this is truly a beneficial gift from nature, because how otherwise would our physique be able to withstand the vicissitudes of life? The experience [with seasickness] has convinced me often that I, with the least prior knowledge of what I would have considered insurmountable, and… — C. J. Wagevier Copy Share
“That was certainly a case of snowballing momentum. Who would've thought he'd succeed being that far behind?" "True. This particular assignment was designed to test one major skill... the ability to expect the unexpected. How well the student could envision exactly what sort of dish would be necessary... ... for a buffet-style hotel breakfast was the key to success. But… — Yuto Tsukuda Copy Share
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