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Quotes about Adaptation

I was lucky to lose my voice at the beginning of the personal computing age.
— Stephen Hawking
Yes, the world has been different ever since Darwin. But no less exciting, instructing, or uplifting; for if we cannot find purpose in nature, we will have to define it for ourselves.
— Stephen Jay Gould
This is a changing world. It changes from day to day, year to year, and from age to age. Rivers deepen their gorges as they carry more land to the sea. Mountains rise, only to be leveled gradually by winds and rain. Continents rise and sink into the sea. Such are the gradual changes of the physical earth as days add into years and years combine to become ages.
— Stephen Jay Gould
God give me patience, to reconcile with what I am not able to changeGive me strength to change what I canAnd give me wisdom to distinguish one from another.
— Marcus Aurelius
If bees only gathered nectar from perfect flowers, they wouldn't be able to make even a single drop of honey.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't cry over spilt milk when you can milk another cow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
We are at a crossroads in the music business: with the rise of the internet, the world we live in has changed, and the past is not coming back. But I see the glass as half-full: the internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
— Jon Bon Jovi
I like progress but I hate change.
— Jon Bon Jovi
The past has to be viewed as a springboard to the future.
— Jon Gordon
Were I a nightingale, I would sing like a nightingale; were I a swan, like a swan. But as it is, I am a rational being, therefore I must sing hymns of praise to God.
— Epictetus
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
— Epictetus
A church that does not keep step with modern scientific knowledge is doomed.
— Eric Metaxas