Flexibility Quotes (2)
One of the biggest roles of science fiction is to prepare people to accept the future without pain and to encourage a flexibility of the mind. Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
(1984) Quoted in Jerome Agel (ed.), The Making of Kubrick's 2001 (4th Ed. 1970), 300. In James E. Combs, Polpop: Politics and Popular Culture in America (1984), 147.
See also: | Accept (2) | Future (29) | Mind (116) | Pain (30) | Politician (5) | Read (10) | Science Fiction (10) | Story (2)
Plasticity is a double-edged sword; the more flexible an organism is the greater the variety of maladaptive, as well as adaptive, behaviors it can develop; the more teachable it is the more fully it can profit from the experiences of its ancestors and associates and the more it risks being exploited by its ancestors and associates.
In Gary William Flake, The Computational Beauty of Nature (2000), 361.
See also: | Adaptation (9) | Ancestor (6) | Associate (2) | Behaviour (11) | Experience (57) | Exploit (2) | Learning (43) | Organism (25) | Plasticity (2) | Profit (6)
