Adaptability Quotes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change, that lives within the means available and works cooperatively against common threats.

Building a better mousetrap merely results in smarter mice.

Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

How have all those exquisite adaptations of one part of the organisation to another part, and to the conditions of life, and of one organic being to another being, been perfected?

Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.

The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.

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

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

In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.