Adaptation Quote by Georges St-Pierre

Dinosaurs were huge and powerful; they could not adapt and they died out. And so the big difference between dinosaurs and cockroaches is adaptability:…

— Georges St-Pierre

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only…

— H. Bentley Glass

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

— Jeffrey Kluger

“Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without…

— Alan Weisman

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“A cockroach can live nine days without its head”

— Adam Anderson

As every cockroach knows, thriving on poisons is the secret of success.

— Mason Cooley

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?

— Wayne Dyer

It's like a cockroach working up a plan to defeat the shoe on its way down to crush it.

— Rick Yancey

There is seldom just one cockroach in the kitchen. You know, you turn on the light and, all of sudden, they all start scurrying…

— Warren Buffett