Adaptation Quotes

"Change is a difficult thing. It can make you feel unsafe or lost. " "Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next" "Change is a normal part of our existence." "It is nonhabitability, more than any other factor, that determines our potential for antifragility" "In today’s rapidly changing world, the people who are not taking risk are the risk takers." "Necessity is the mother of invention" "We cannot change anything unless we accept it" "We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes" "The underlying principles of strategy are enduring, regardless of technology or the pace of change." "I always felt like I was a freak, and I had to change to fit in. But I realized that I had to adapt." "There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way" "The cut worm forgives the plow " "We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness" "In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind" "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "The process of natural selection is smarter than you are." "Expecting an organism to evolve traits just because they are useful to us is a dangerous kind of anthropocentrism." "A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation" "Natural selection is anything but random."