Adaptation – Quotes

The truth is that

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is the work of one devoted to God, willing and glad to suffer all things for God, penetrated by the attractiveness of God. New machinery, adaptations and adjustments, are not the … Read more

As a consequence, geneticists

As a consequence, geneticists described evolution simply as a change in gene frequencies in populations, totally ignoring the fact that evolution consists of the two simultaneous but quite separate phenomena of adaptation and diversification. Ernst Mayr

Archimedes constructing his circle

Archimedes constructing his circle pays with his life for his defective biological adaptation to immediate circumstances. Ernst Mach

Science always has its

Science always has its origin in the adaptation of thought to some definite field of experience. Ernst Mach

Both of these branches

Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of the laws of heredity and adaptation. Ernst Haeckel

I established the opposite

I established the opposite view, that this history of the embryo (ontogeny) must be completed by a second, equally valuable, and closely connected branch of thought – the history of race (phylogeny). Both of these branches of evolutionary science, are, in my opinion, in the closest causal connection; this arises from the reciprocal action of … Read more

The nucleus has to

The nucleus has to take care of the inheritance of the heritable characters, while the surrounding cytoplasm is concerned with accommodation or adaptation to the environment. Ernst Haeckel

One learns to itch

One learns to itch where one can scratch. Ernest Bramah

I always thought that

I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn’t feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was … Read more