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.

Comedy is the last refuge of the noncontormist mind

Comedy is what makes the subversion of the existing state of affairs possible.

Comedy is what enables a search for the profound.

Comedy is the only possible wat to tell the truth — If you are going to tell people the truth, be funny or they will kill you.

Conversation is best with lulls — Repose is as necessary in conversation as in a picture.

The Conversation is that which makes for friends rather than vice versa.

Conversation is our account of ourselves. All we have, all we can, all we know is brought into play, and as the reproduction, in finer form, of all our havings.

Conversation is feminine, circular and radiant of the underlying unity.

A Discovery is great, if it is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.

Discovery is secondary to persuasion — In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.

Discovery is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.

Discovery is the ability to be puzzled by simple things.