Bernie Siegel Quotes

When the ancestors of the cheetah first began pursuing the ancestors of the gazelle, neither of them could run as fast as they can today.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

The law of the survival of the fittest led inevitably to the survival and predominance of the men who were effective in war and who loved it because they were effective.

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

Most animals are built to withstand one bad year.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Nature knows best.

Animals arrived, liked the look of the place, took up their quarters, settled down, spread, and flourished. They didn't bother themselves about the past - they never do; they're too busy.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the Earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

Nature has no compassion. Nature accepts no excuses and the only punishment it knows is death.

Fear, love, and hunger were the agents that developed the wits of the lower animals, as they were, of course, the prime factors in developing the intelligence of man.

I'm a Darwinian.

The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.

I have always had this basic biological question in terms of evolution, if the drive to evolution is to like survive. An organism that survives well, there is really no need for consciousness in there.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

The weak die out and the strong will survive, and will live on forever

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat for leopards.

you just took on five million years of evolution again

In fighting, in evolution, in life, efficiency is the key.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.