“Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.” PeopleMadeAbleEarthStuffEnvironmentVictoryProveSurvivalSupremeAdaptationMartyr Author:Aleister Crowley
“Morality is a biological adaptation no less than are hands and feet and teeth... Considered as a rationally justifiable set of claims about an objective something, ethics is illusory. I appreciate that when somebody says, 'Love thy neighbor as thyself,' they think they are referring above and beyond themselves... Nevertheless... such reference is truly without foundation. Morality is just an aid to survival and reproduction... and any deeper meaning is illusory...” ThinkingHandsFeetMoralitySurvivalEthicsAppreciateClaimsFoundationDeeperAidsNeighborTeethObjectivesNeverthelessAdaptationThyselfReproductionReferringIllusoryLove Thy NeighborHands And FeetAbove And BeyondDeeper Meaning Author:Michael Ruse
“Our generation must fulfill the most noble of duties by ensuring the survival of future generations through the most basic of survival mechanisms - adaptation.” GenerationsDutySurvivalNobleMechanismAdaptationFuture GenerationOur Generation Author:Leilani Munter
“Darwinian evolution is slow and gradual, step by step. Such an evolution can explain micro-evolution but not macro-evolution. For example, how did the eye evolve? The idea behind Darwinism is that organisms adapt, and that nature selects only those genetic changes which are the mutations that serve a good purpose for adaptation. So taken this way, the eye cannot develop gradually because one-thousandth or one-millionth of an eye would be of no value for survival. So generally this question rules out Darwinism as an adequate theory for macro-evolution.” EyePurposeValuesTakenEvolutionSurvivalEvolveAdaptationDarwinism Author:Ricky Ray
“During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned - not what should be changed or introduced. A willingness to depart from the familiar has distinct survival value.” ShouldMotivationalValuesChangeChangedPeriodsSurvivalEssenceFamiliarWillingnessAbandonedSensitivityAdaptation Author:Peter Drucker
“The survival of the fittest is the ageless law of nature, but the fittest are rarely the strong. The fittest are those endowed with the qualifications for adaptation, the ability to accept the inevitable and conform to the unavoidable, to harmonize with existing or changing conditions.” LifeLawStrongAbilityAcceptingConditionsAcceptanceInspirational LifeSurvivalInevitableConformAdaptationLaws Of NatureQualificationsSurvival Of The FittestAgeless Author:Dave Smalley
“A cockroach can’t defeat a dinosaur. But the cockroach is better at one thing, and it has ensured its survival through the ages: Adaptation. One could adapt to the environment and the other one couldn’t.” AgeEnvironmentOne ThingSurvivalDefeatAdaptationDinosaursCockroaches Author:Georges St-Pierre
“In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.” MeanGamesDiversitySurvivalFewerRequirementsAdaptationPeasPandas Author:Cary Fowler