Survival Quotes

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" "We are organisms that have evolved mechanisms for learning how to respond to our environments in ways that tend to increase our fitness" "In evolution, you can’t keep what you believe is best for you; you must keep what goes and reliably gets reproduced." "I've been scarred and battered" "Love is fragile. And we're not always its best caretakers. We just muddle through and do the best we can. And hope this fragile thing survives against all odds" "Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception" "All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me" "I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it" "I wonder if life is ever lived well by anybody, if there is any one thing that might be called a success—except survival." "Money isn’t the most important thing in life, but it’s reasonably close to oxygen on the “gotta have it” scale." "We are survival machines - robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes" "We should not live by Darwinian principles. But Darwin explains how we got here" "Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts that simply do not make evolutionary sense" "In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity" "I don't believe in a lot of things, but I do believe in duct tape"