Quotes about Adaptation

We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that, my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.

All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

For everything you have missed you have gained something else.

The moment is freedom. — I couldn't live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken', and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen

Submission is the art of compensating for your weakness by playing to each other's strengths.

if you learn from every mistake, then there is no such thing as failure anyway.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.