Chapter 17: Change

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.

--Charles Darwin

Variation is one thing, evolution quite another;

this cannot be emphasized strongly enough...

Mutations provide change, but not progress.

--Pierre-Paul Grasse

When I say mutation, I do not mean simply change.

Change is from the known to the known.

A sinner becomes a saint; then it is change and not mutation.

You can practice change--but you cannot practice mutation.

Because only the known can be practiced.

--Osho

The truly apocalyptic view of the world is that things do not repeat themselves.  It isn't absurd to believe that the age of science and technology is the beginning of the end for humanity; that the idea of great progress is delusion, along with the idea that the truth will ultimately be known; that there is nothing good or desirable about scientific knowledge and that mankind, in seeking it, is falling into a trap.  It is by no means obvious that this is not how things are.

--Ludwig Wittgenstein

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.

--The Bhagavad-Gita

TO BE CONTINUED IN CHAPTER 18: HEADSHOT!!!