Quotes about Adaptation

Please change me. Make me whatever suits Your purposes here.

Thinking you knew something was a sure way to blind yourself. It was not growing up that slowly applied brakes to learning (Mentats were taught) but an accumulation of "things I know." New

The only permanence was fluid. Change was all that mattered.

You took the universe as you found it and applied your principles where you could.

There's no secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin — only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

For what would you use such a place, Paul Atreides?" "To make this planet a fit place for humans," Paul said. Perhaps that's why I help them, Kynes thought.

Humans can balance on strange surfaces, Odrade said. Even on unpredictable ones. It's called 'getting in tune.' Great musicians know it. Surfers I watched when I was a child on Gammu, they knew it. Some waves throw you but you're prepared for that. You climb back up and go at it once more.

Every sense you possess is an instrument for reacting to change.

In a changing universe, only a changing species can hope to be immortal and then only if its eggs are nurtured in widely scattered environments. This predicts a wealth of unique individuals. — Insights (a glimpse of early Human philosophy), BuSab Text

Aceasta e aberaÈ›ia puterii: în ultim? instan?? este eficace numai într-un Univers absolut, limitat. Dar lecÈ›ia de c?p?tâi a Universului nostru relativist este c? lucrurile se schimb?. Orice putere trebuie s? înfrunte întotdeauna o putere mai mare.

Bis jetzt haben die Menschen, wenn sie die Oberfläche ihrer Planeten veränderten, nichts als Krankheiten zugefügt. Glücklicherweise tendiert die Natur dazu, den ihr zugefügten Schaden zu absorbieren oder sie dem eigenen System geschickt anzupassen.