Adaptation Quote by Hyman Rickover

“Hippocrates was so great that today’s doctors still take the Oath of Hippocrates (though it has been modified during the 20th century)”

— Terry Deary

“This is, of course, an easy Berlinian riposte. Start with some graceful hand waving about incommensurability; declare that nothing could reconcile these great goods;…

— Kwame Anthony Appiah

Anytime you do something in this arena, whether it's public records or ethics, it's not like throwing a stone in a quiet pond. It's…

— Kate Brown

Ethics, like natural selection, make existence possible. Aesthetics, like sensual selection, make life lovely and wonderful, fill it with new forms, and give it…

— Oscar Wilde

Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!

— Robin Williams

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

— Wendell Berry

“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”

— Raheel Farooq

The world may not be ready yet for the film equivalent of books on tape, but this peculiar phenomenon has arrived in the form…

— Elvis Mitchell

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony…

— Anonymous

The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the…

— Anonymous

The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with…

— Dave Smalley

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz