Daniel Suarez Quotes

Natural selection will not remove ignorance from future generations.

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius.

All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is nature's only irreducible essence... I had to place myself amidst the variation.

In the present epoch of struggle between two worlds the two opposing and antagonistic trends penetrating the foundations of nearly all branches of biology are particularly sharply defined.

The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

First, Darwinian theory tells us how a certain amount of diversity in life forms can develop once we have various types of complex living organisms already in existence.

If we didn't have genetic mutations, we wouldn't have us. You need error to open the door to the adjacent possible.

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

The difficulty of looking at a system like natural selection if you have any sort of moral sense yourself, is almost what makes it beautiful.

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.

Evolution is one of the two or three most primally fascinating subjects in all the sciences.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary point of view, you and I are like the booster rockets designed to send the genetic payload into the next level of orbit and then drop off into the sea.

Evolution never stops or ends. Such a cessation would be cataclysmic catastrophe.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

I'm looking for all the things that are beneficial in the human genome. Everything that I do is based on a very simple principle: things that are beneficial will spread through populations very quickly.

Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.

The fuel for evolution is diversity, with natural selection leading to continuous adaptations and improvements in Nature's handiwork.

We share deep admiration for evolution, a force of Nature that has led to the finest chemistry of all time, and to all living things on this planet.

Most organisms either adapt and become part of the system, or get wiped out. The only thing we have to adapt to the system with is our brain. If we don't use it, and we don't adapt fast enough, we won't survive.

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

There are no monotone "values" in biology.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.