190 Quotes About Adaptation

The mind is not designed to grasp the laws of probability, even though the laws rule the universe.

They did what soldiers always do. They improvised.

Innovators "view failure not as a fatal character flaw but as a learning experience.

Old English, the heart and soul of the old regime at Oxford, ceased to be a required course only as of 2002.

Kiedy nie ma się nic oprócz młotka, wszystko wygląda jak gwóźdź.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

John Laroche: You know why I like plants?Susan Orlean: Nuh uh.John Laroche: Because they're so mutable. Adaptation is a profound process. Means you figure out how to thrive in the world.Susan Orlean: [pause] Yeah but it's easier for plants. I mean they have no memory. They just move on to whatever's next. With a person though, adapting almost shameful. It's like running away.

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.