Acquisition Quote by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

“The future of a society was not determined by the traits its members shared but rested entirely on their differences”

— Orhan Pamuk

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

— Charles Darwin

But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by…

— Albert Einstein

Man was formed for society.

— Francis Bacon

Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced…

— Charles Lyell

“and continually evolving both the structure”

— Michael A. Cusumano

Anyone who is kind to man knows the fragmentariness of most men, and wants to arrange a society of power in which men fall…

— D. H. Lawrence

What we experience in various and specific milieux, I have noted, is often caused by structural changes. Accordingly, to understand the changes of many…

— C. Wright Mills

Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.

— John Kenneth Galbraith

A permanent state of transition is man's most noble condition.

— Juan Ramon Jimenez

It seems to me that you are solving a problem which goes beyond the limits of physiology in too simple a way. Physiology has…

— Alexander Herzen

Each human being is a more complex structure than any social system to which he belongs.

— Alfred North Whitehead