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Survival Quotes
"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival." "It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." "To survive it is often necessary to fight and to fight you have to dirty yourself." "Once one determines that he or she has a mission in life, that is not going to be accomplished without a great deal of pain, and that the rewards in the end may not outweigh the pain - if you recognize historically that always happens, then when it comes, you survive it." "It has yet to be proven ... that intelligence has any survival value." "This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." "This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life." "In a mad world, only the mad are sane." "In spite of everything that was done to me and my race, in spite of the adversity and the bitter moments, again we rise." "All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar." "The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass." "Perhaps catastrophe is the natural human environment, and even though we spend a good deal of energy trying to get away from it, we are programmed for survival amid catastrophe." "It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value." "Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age." "Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe." "Learning is not compulsory ... neither is survival."
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