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“Evolution taught us that adaptation is the key to survival.”
“...if an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we...”
“When you talk with people, one of the arguments they'll throw back at you is that the climate has always changed, and that is absolutely right. It's the rate of change that is the problem right now...”
“I am suggesting here that organisms have a built-I capability of adapting to their environment. I am suggesting that to the extent that evolution occurs, it occurs at the level of the organism. Thi...”
“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay throu...”
“Evolution is more about adaptivity than adaptability.”
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“Suicide is a form of murder premeditated murder. It isnt something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes some getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A...”
“Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.”
“All canonical writing possesses the quality "of making you feel strangeness at home.”
“[F]or all its reputation for conservatism, cricket in its history has demonstrated a remarkable capacity for innovation. What game has survived subjection to such extraordinary manipulations, havin...”
“Cultural change works orders of magnitude faster then genetic change. Stephen Jay Gould”
“And since a more convincing argument could not be foundaside from a fatal accident or suicidethis way was chosen: a process of galloping senescence.”
“If love is only like a disease, where when you learn the disease for you to able to kill it. I would learn how to love so that I can kill it when it comes.”
“They did what soldiers always do. They improvised.”
“The best fighter is not a Boxer, Karate or Judo man. The best fighter is someone who can adapt on any style. He kicks too good for a Boxer, throws too good for a Karate man, and punches too good fo...”
“People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is w...”
“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...”
“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.”
