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“In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you do not like me so,To he...”
“All of nature was a record of crisis and destruction and adaptation and flourishing and being knocked back down again. What had happened on New Terra was singular and concrete, but the pattern it w...”
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes th...”
“Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.”
“A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wro...”
“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”
“As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that ...”
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
“Our selves, our being, our ego, our soul, our individuality, our personality, is only our mind continuously adapting to its environment to insure survival and well-being, working with whatever inh...”
“A...reason we are so-so scientists is that our brains were shaped for fitness, not for truth. Sometimes truth is adaptive, but sometimes it is not.”
“The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.”
“I need not adapt in certain ways. I am in fact but a visitor to this world, an ephemeral gasp within its long, tired history, and, before anything else, a follower of Christ. By this alone I have t...”
“That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.”
“Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.”
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
“We first make our habits, then our habits make us.”
“It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble. An animal perfectly in harmony with its environment is a perfect mechanism. Nat...”
“To have a solid foundation of skepticism, -that is to say, the faculty of changing at any moment, of turning back, of facing successively the metamorphoses of life.”
“There were times he thought he might not want to live the life he saw before him. It was a life of obstacles and hardshipschallenges and tests of will he could not yet predict. But he couldnt stop....”
“Life is ever changing. We can always adapt to the new changes.”
