“The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.”

False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

I long to set foot where no man has trod before.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment.

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

The world will not be inherited by the strongest, it will be inherited by those most able to change.

An agnostic would be the more correct description of my state of mind.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.

Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men’s minds which follows from the advance of science.

The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic.

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation.

There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.

Don’t get older; get better: Live realistically. Give generously. Adapt willingly. Trust fearlessly. Rejoice daily.

You could have left me in the jungle. I would have survived and mastered bird language. Adaptability is my secret weapon.

Sunflowers adapt to let the light reach them and I’m learning to do the same.

Learning and adapting things again isn’t that easy for ones who loved someone unconditionally.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

I adapt and I adjust to whatever environment I’m in.

You must always be evolving and able to adapt and overcome any and all obstacles!

It is not the biggest, the brightest or the best that will survive, but those who adapt the quickest.