Adaptation Quotes
God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in any sort of dish that will induce the people to partake of it
The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.
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 nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance our knowledge.
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.
Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions.
Keep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on.
....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.
I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed up.
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.
For the source of any characteristic so widespread and uniform as this adaptation to environment we must go back to the very beginning of the human race.
Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.
Adaptation is the only means to reduce the now-unavoidable costs of climate change over the next few decades
It is not stress that kills us. It is effective adaptation to stress that allows us to live.
My mother came from St. Thomas. I heard that melody and all I did was actually adapt it. I made my adaptation of sort of an island traditional melody. It did become sort of my trademark tune.
Repression is an evolutionary adaptation permitting us to function under the burden of our expanded consciousness. For what we are conscious of could drive us mad.
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation.
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
The movie adaptations of stage musicals that I've seen, without exception, in my opinion don't work. A lot of people would disagree with me.
The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.
The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment.
Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.
In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.
I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing the French fully into the NATO forces.
Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.
I'm going to do an adaptation of the Italian film, Bread and Tulips. I really like that film.