It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
- On the origin of species, Charles Darwin. src
For one accustomed to the myopia of day-to-day work in a field, so jammed against the swaggering parade of passing trends that one can hardly see beyond them or beneath them, such shifts in viewpoint may be abundant but wisdom is rare.
- Bret Victor on The Art of Doing Science & Engineering by Richard Hamming. src