Adaptation is the transformation of an organism by incorporating the environment into its extended cognitive system.

Adaptation is the desire to control environment.

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

Adaptation is a necessary faculty of that scoundrel, man. He can grow used to everything.

Change is impossible — The tail of the greyhound will not be made straight even though it remains seven years in the melting-pot.

Change is always possible — Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.

Change is unlikely in a great man — A god does not change his ways.

Change is all about timing — It is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.

Creativity is the omnipotence of the child's mind, consisting in maintaining a key aspect of the experience of childhood throughout one's life: the capacity to create and recreate the world.

Creativity is people who care enough to keep thinking about something until they find the simplest way to do it.

Creativity is the act of letting down the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are suspended, and the attempt to bring out of it ideas.

Creativity is no substitute for knowing what you are doing.

Experimentation is, in writing, another way of saying you don't know what you're doing.

Experimentation is the least arrogant method of gaining knowledge. The experimenter humbly asks a question of nature.

Experimentation is concerned with the forces present in the heart of the individual vying for master and slave. It always involves an inventor, an experimental object, failures, successes, victims, and sacrificers.