Quotes About Survival

Available energy is the main object at stake in the struggle for existence and the evolution of the world.

Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.

The man who wins out and survives does so only because of superior science and strategy.

It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.

The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations.

Our passion for learning ... is our tool for survival.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot of Mount Everest and insisting that you cannot see the mountain.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability.

A people of scholars, if they are physically degenerate, weak-willed and cowardly pacifists, will not storm the heavens, indeed, they will not be able to safeguard their existence on this earth.

Our survival, the future of our civilization, possibly the existence of mankind, depends on American leadership

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Flawed as they may be, science and the secular Enlightenment values expressed in Western democracies are our best hope for survival.

Data that is loved tends to survive.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

MOUSE, n. An animal which strews its path with fainting women.

I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

A theory which cannot be mortally endangered cannot be alive.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

The conflict of theories, leading, as it eventually must, to the survival of the fittest, is advantageous.

Spader and I were nearly killed. Three times. We were also robbed and witnessed a gruesome murder. Happy birthday to me!