Quotes about Adaptation

To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go.

Reason will by degrees submit to absurdity, as the eye is in time accommodated to darkness.

Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.

For Dawkins, evolution is a battle among genes, each seeking to make more copies of itself. Bodies are merely the places where genes aggregate for a time.

I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

When the end of the world comes, I want to be in Cincinnati because it's always 20 years behind the times.

It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue (German) ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.

If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example. It is still clinging to one or two things which were useful once, but which are not useful now, neither are they ornamental.

He worked up his old battles and tricked them out with fresh splendors; also with new terrors, for he added artillery now.

The only person who likes change is a wet baby.