Adaptation Quotes - Page 2

It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.

Slowly we adjust, but only if we have to.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Prudence supposes the value of the end to be assumed, and refers only to the adaptation of the means. It is the relation of right means for given ends.

Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.

At a minimum, in explaining evolutionary pathways through time, the constraints imposed by history rise to equal prominence with the immediate advantages of adaptation.

In fast moving markets, adaptation is significantly more important than optimization.

Individual organisms are best thought of as adaptation-executers rather than as fitness-maximizers.

What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation.

Some of us have great original ideas and some of us depend on adaptations.

Our adaptation to the natural forces is a question of existence or non-existence. We cannot transform the universe or nature so that they adapt themselves to us; on the contrary, we must adapt ourselves to nature and her laws.

Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

The landscape of cinema is not original. Not to say there aren't great movies being made, but it's much easier for studios to make movies that have built-in audiences. So it's all remakes, adaptations, a lot of remakes of adaptations.

When working on a period, it is the finer details that evoke imagery that helps in cinematic adaptations.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

There is change by necessity or adaptation, and there is contrived change or novelty.

Individual societies begin in harmonious adaptation to the environment and, like individuals, quickly get trapped into nonadaptive, artificial, repetitive sequences.

At the time, The Hotel New Hampshire was John Irving's favorite adaptation of his work, which meant a lot to all of us who worked on that movie.It's amazing to me that that was a studio movie. That was a summer studio release! If that doesn't tell you how much the business has changed, nothing will.

But that constant adjustment and adaptation to your new environment, all the variables are the same. There's always a promoter, there's always a rider, there's always a shower, and there's always a stage.

Not everybody can do the comic book adaptation thing and make it believable. It is challenging.

I really enjoy working on adaptations.

Some evolutionists will protest that we are caricaturing their view of adaptation. After all, do they not admit genetic drift, allometry, and a variety of reasons for nonadaptive evolution?

...we must be wary of granting too much power to natural selection by viewing all basic capacities of our brain as direct adaptations.

What an odd time to be a fundamentalist about adaptation and natural selection - when each major subdiscipline of evolutionary biology has been discovering other mechanisms as adjuncts to selection's centrality.

People talk about human intelligence as the greatest adaptation in the history of the planet. It is an amazing and marvelous thing, but in evolutionary terms, it is as likely to do us in as to help us along.