Quotes about Adaptation

We cannot solve problems with the kind of thinking we employed when we came up with them

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

You got rid of them. Yes, that's just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether 'tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don't do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It's too easy.

Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.

The universal and ever-present urge to self-transcendence is not to be abolished by slamming the current popular Doors in the Wall. The only reasonable policy is to open other, better doors in the hope of inducing men and women to exchange their old habits for new and less harmful ones.

Science and technology would be used as though, like the Sabbath, they ahd been made for man, not as though man were to be adapted and enslaved to them.

To change a vocabulary is easy; to change external circumstances or our own ingrained habits is hard and tiresome.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

But God doesn't change.' 'Men do though.

For the same reason as we don't give them Othello: they're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now.' 'But God doesn't change.' 'Men do, though.' 'What difference does that make?' 'All the difference in the world

Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.

You can chase a bird from your porch, but you can not take away its ability to fly.