"The first theft marked Buck as fit to……" — Jack London

"The first theft marked Buck as fit to survive in the hostile Northland environment. It marked his adaptability, his capacity to adjust himself to changing conditions, the lack of which would have meant swift and terrible death. It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for existence."

— Jack London

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I am ever more intrigued by the correspondence between mathematics and physical facts. The adaptability of mathematics to the description… — Nicolaas Bloembergen
Man adapts himself to everything, to the best and the worst. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
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To exist is to adapt, and if one could not adapt, one died and made room for those who could. — Louis L'Amour
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