Quotes About Survival

One way or another, I regard it as almost inevitable that either a nuclear confrontation or environmental catastrophe will cripple the Earth at some point in the next 1,000 years which, as geological time goes, is the mere blink of an eye. By then I hope and believe that our ingenious race will have found a way to slip the surly bonds of Earth and will therefore survive the disaster.

from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. If we stay, we risk being annihilated.

Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.

La inteligencia se caracteriza por la capacidad de adaptarse a los cambios. La inteligencia humana es el resultado de muchas generaciones de selección natural, de aquellos con la capacidad de adaptarse a circunstancias cambiantes. No debemos temer el cambio. Tenemos que hacer que funcione a nuestro favor.

Keeping an active mind has been vital to my survival, as has been maintaining a sense of humor.

It has certainly been true in the past that what we call intelligence and scientific discovery have conveyed a survival advantage.

We can define life as an ordered system that can keep itself going against the tendency to disorder and can reproduce itself.

Una limitación y un peligro aún mayores para las generaciones futuras son que todavía tenemos instintos, y en particular los impulsos agresivos, que tuvimos en los días del hombre de las cavernas.

Not to leave planet Earth would be like castaways on a desert island not trying to escape.

De una forma u otra, considero casi inevitable que haya alguna confrontación nuclear o que la catástrofe ambiental paralice la Tierra en algún momento en los próximos mil años, que en comparación con el tiempo geológico es un simple abrir y cerrar de ojos. Para entonces espero y creo que nuestra ingeniosa especie habrá encontrado alguna manera de escuchar los lamentos de la Tierra y, por lo tanto, de sobrevivir al desastre.

unirse. Necesitamos reavivar la emoción de los primeros días del viaje espacial en los años sesenta. La tecnología está casi a nuestro alcance. Es hora de explorar otros sistemas solares; puede ser lo único que nos salve de nosotros mismos. Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.

Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward-looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

Pada waktu itu, kecuali kita sudah ke luar Tata Surya, umat manusia akan telah lama punah, musnah bersama-sama Matahari kita!

Esto no debería preocuparnos demasiado, puesto que para entonces, a menos que tengamos colonias más allá del sistema solar, la humanidad habrá desaparecido hace tiempo, extinguida con la muerte de nuestro Sol.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded

Man without a gun has got no chance, Bob thought. Man has a gun, he has a chance.

one octogenarian "grandfather" who still used the rifle with which he had killed the Russians who tried to stop him at the border in the thirties.

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

The history of life is a story of massive removal followed by differentiation within a few surviving stocks, not the conventional tale of steadily increasing excellence, complexity, and diversity.

But how can a series of reasonable intermediate forms be constructed? Of what value could the first tiny step toward an eye be to its possessor? The dung-mimicking insect is well protected, but can there be any edge in looking only 5 percent like a turd?

You think Okay, I get it, I'm prepared for the worst , but you hold out that small hope, see, and that's what fucks you up. That's what kills you.

If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.