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Adaptation Quotes

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change"

"Learn everything that is good from others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it"

"The nose of the bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go."

"I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term of Natural Selection"

"Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo."

"We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them"

"The irony of general-purpose technologies is that, before long, they become invisible and we take them for granted"

"There are no conditions to which a person cannot grow accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way"

"As much as people say they love change, they love it when you change—not when you want them to change"

"Scientific knowledge is in perpetual evolution; it finds itself changed from one day to the next"

"Natural selection is anything but random."

"A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation"

"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring "

"Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own."

"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception"

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