Quote by Annalee Newitz

“She wasn’t sure which motivation made better fuel for innovation: naïve but ethical beliefs, or the need to survive.”

— Annalee Newitz

Humans are a great survivor species but our survival will be pretty grim if all of the plants and animals we depend on die…

— Annalee Newitz

Amphibians are dying out like crazy, and frogs and salamanders may be largely extinct by the end of the twenty-first century. Imagine an animal…

— Annalee Newitz

“It didn’t just boost your concentration. It made you enjoy work. You couldn’t wait to get back to the keyboard, the breadboard, the gesture…

— Annalee Newitz

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend…

— Annalee Newitz

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

— Annalee Newitz

“ For all the robots who question their programming. ”

— Annalee Newitz

Obviously it depends on how you define a word like "evolution," because of course we have been evolving - both biologically and culturally -…

— Annalee Newitz

I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals we can…

— Annalee Newitz

The fact is that humans have been shaping the genetics of what they eat for thousands of years. Genetic engineering simply speeds up the…

— Annalee Newitz

In terms of fiction, there are a number of writers who are thinking about the future of the environment whose work complements mine. Kim…

— Annalee Newitz

“As UC Berkeley economics professor Brad DeLong put it to me: You get famine if the price of food spikes far beyond that of…

— Annalee Newitz