Notables and Quotables
Adaptation
“It’s not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.”
- Charles Darwin, English biologist
“The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
- Kakuzo Okakura, Japanese scholar
“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.”
- Chinese Proverb
“Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative.”
- H.G. Wells, English author
“All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.”
- Max McKeown, English author
“The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.”
- David Hare, English playwright
“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”
- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
- George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
- Stephen Hawking, English physicist
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