Quotes about Adaptation

The entire sweep of the Bible teaches that Christians in non-Christian environments are not to be worried so much about changing their environments as they are to remain faithful in whatever kind of environment they find themselves.

We aren't called to live first-century lives in the twenty-first century, but twenty-first-century lives as we walk in the light of the revelation God gave to us in the first century.

David Brooks, commenting on the workplace, once said, "Never underestimate the power of the environment you work in to gradually transform who you are. When you choose to work at a certain company, you are turning yourself into the sort of person who works in that company

When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time his world had not been born yet.

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.