Top 25 Adaptation Quotes of 67

In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.

Alfred Russel Wallace

Animal, Details, Adaptation

Alfred Russel Wallace (1853). “A Narrative of Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro: With an Account of the Native Tribes, and Observations on the Climate, Geology, and Natural History of the Amazon Valley”, p.83, London : Reeve and Company

The human brain is generally regarded as a complex web of adaptations built into the nervous system, even though no one knows how.

Michael Gazzaniga

Brain, Nervous, Adaptation

Michael S. Gazzaniga (2000). “The Mind's Past”, p.13, Univ of California Press

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Ernest Bramah

Scratches, Adaptation, Adaptability

Ernest Bramah (2016). “THE KAI LUNG FANTASY SERIES: The Wallet of Kai Lung, Kai Lung's Golden Hours & Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat: The Transmutation of Ling, The Story of Yung Chang, The Probation of Sen Heng, The Experiment of the Mandarin Chan Hung, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Vengeance of Tung Fel and more”, p.442, e-artnow

You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

Charlie Kaufman

Lonely, Dna, Adaptation

Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.

Wallace Stegner

West, Adaptation, Process

Wallace Earle Stegner (1995). “Where the bluebird sings to the lemonade springs: living and writing in the West”, Random House Value Pub

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

H. G. Wells

Pain, Adaptation, Time Machine

H. G. Wells (2015). “The Time Machine”, p.45, eKitap Projesi

Adaptation seems to be, to a substantial extent, a process of reallocating your attention.

Daniel Kahneman

Attention, Adaptation, Process

"Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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.

Thomas A. Edison

Ideas, Problem, Adaptation

Yesterday's adaptations are today's routines.

Ronald A. Heifetz

Yesterday, Today, Adaptation

Ronald A. Heifetz, Marty Linsky, Alexander Grashow (2014). “Adaptive Leadership: The Heifetz Collection (3 Items)”, p.204, Harvard Business Review Press

Man is a pliable animal, a being who gets accustomed to everything!

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Animal, Men, Adaptation

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience.

Ernst Mach

Fields, Adaptation, Definite

Ernst Mach (1959). “The Analysis of Sensations: And the Relation of the Physical to the Psychical”

....shellfish are the prime cause of the decline of morals and the adaptation of an extravagant lifestyle.

Pliny the Elder

Causes, Moral, Adaptation

Much guilt arises in the life of the believer from practicing the chameleon life of environmental adaptation.

Beth Moore

Guilt, Environmental, Adaptation

Beth Moore (2002). “When Godly People Do Ungodly Things: Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction”, p.266, B&H Publishing Group

Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.

E. W. Howe

Wonderful, Adaptation, Used

Writing is a journey into the unknown.

Charlie Kaufman

Writing, Journey, Adaptation

Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

I see only adaptations - not revolutions.

Gordon Getty

Revolution, Adaptation

"'I want to make the world better'". Interview with Vadim Prokhorov, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2005.

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.

Camille Paglia

Mad, Consciousness, Adaptation

Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.44, Canongate Books