Quotes about Adaptation

The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea.

You can't stop a bird from landing on your head. But you can keep it from building a nest.

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.

You always learn from observing. You have to pick things up nonverbally because people will never tell you what you're supposed to know. You have to get it for yourself: whatever it is that you need in order to survive. You become strong by doing the things you need to be strong for. This is the way genuine learning takes place.

I am reminded of how difficult and time-consuming it is to reinvent the pencil every time you want to send a message.

Look, Gail. Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life. Your strength? Your work. He tossed the branch aside. The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

Dagny, we can never lose the things we live for. We may have to change their form at times, if we've made an error, but the purpose remains the same and the forms are ours to make.

Maybe he'll be different from who he was and always is.

There are three constants in life... Change, Choice and Principles.

You cannot predict the future.

Rabbits have white tails in order that it be easy for us to shoot them.

I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. If we stay, we risk being annihilated.