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Quotes About Survival

The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, And Number Three in Kenya. I am Number Four. I am next..." - I AM NUMBER FOUR
~ Pittacus Lore
The embryological record is almost always abbreviated in accordance with the tendency of nature (to be explained on the principle of survival of the fittest) to attain her needs by the easiest means.
~ Francis Maitland Balfour
And I grew up on a steady diet of science fiction, especially apocalyptic and postapocalyptic fiction.
~ Justin Cronin
Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.
~ Arthur Balfour
Science has made unrestricted national sovereignty incompatible with human survival. The only possibilities are now world government or death.
~ Bertrand Russell
To put it crudely but graphically, the monkey who did not have a realistic perception of the tree branch he jumped for was soon a dead monkey-and therefore did not become one of our ancestors.
~ George Gaylord Simpson
Evolution pays and that is why there is evolution
~ George Iles
A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left.
~ J. Arthur Thomson
You don't have to be a rocket science to know that if Joe Teti has a rifle, and a round to go with it. I'm going hunting.
~ Joe Teti
It is difficult to believe in the dreadful but quiet war lurking just below the serene facade of nature.
~ Charles Darwin
F***ing triffids.
~ Scott B. Pruden
Mars and my own stupidity keep trying to kill me.
~ Andy Weir, The Martian
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
~ Mark Lynas, The God Species
... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.
~ Richard Preston
Here's a thought. You answer what I ask and I keep not killing you." - Antiope Flint - DREAMNASIUM
~ Geoffrey Thorne
What's a Laster? A dead man.
~ L.E. Sterling, True Born
Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.
~ Kaz Lefave
Climate Change is a bit like our advanced societies. Too late to "fix." The only choice left is that we adapt to what we've created.
~ Shilpa Menon
Is this how humanity waves good-bye?Hell no.
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
If you don't act now, the day is not far, that this beautiful planet of yours, which you call home, shall be turned into a dry barren wasteland by the blood-sucking fundamentalists.
~ Abhijit Naskar
Nobody knows what is life and still alive
~ Rahul Bodkhe
While there are memories I wish I could dispose of, sometimes my memories are the only things that keep me sane.
~ Shaun David Hutchinson
I still have the scars from when they captured me and beat me in the middle of the street.""You don't get scars.""Emotional scars then.
~ Amy Tintera, Rebel
The day the nation voted on whether I'd live or die, I woke up with a headache.
~ S.E. Bennett, Cipher