Adaptation Quote by Joseph Black

I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind…

— Bernd Heinrich

Another way to test hypotheses about adaptation is to consider trait variation across a group of species instead of focusing on the trait of…

— Elliott Sober

“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a…

— Bruce Lee

“The unglamorous truth is that there are but a handful of uniquely human traits that we have clearly demonstrated are adaptations evolved to thrive…

— Adam Rutherford

“The tendency for depression to repeat reflects the normal default settings of a plastic mood system that is open to experience. The unfortunate consequence…

— Jonathan Rottenberg

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