Animals Quote by Lucretius

The generations of living things pass in a short time, and like runners hand on the torch of life

— Lucretius

The more highly adapted an organism becomes, the less adaptable it is to any new change.

— Ronald Fisher

Thus the sum of things is ever being reviewed, and mortals dependent one upon another. Some nations increase, others diminish, and in a short…

— Lucretius

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

If a group of humans began to run regularly, perhaps allowing them to hunt or scavenge more effectively, anatomical changes would follow, especially among…

— Alice Roberts

“All living species “adapt.” Indeed, “adaptation” is a distinctive emergent property of life in general. Adaptation means that, over time, the average features of…

— Steven J. Dick

Species evolve exactly as if they were adapting as best they could to a changing world, and not at all as if they were…

— George Gaylord Simpson

One main factor in the upward trend of animal life has been the power of wandering.

— Alfred North Whitehead

When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather…

— Charles Galton Darwin

As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to…

— Amby Burfoot

People don't change so much as they evolve, and this evolution tends to be towards what, deep within, they were all along.

— TJay Taylor

Change and growth is so painful. But it's so necessary for us to evolve.

— Sarah McLachlan