Evolution Quote by Michael Shermer

Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about…

— Drew Gilpin Faust

We are the only alive creatures that are mortals; the animals are immortal, which is why they live stupidly. We are the only creatures…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

The evolutionary struggle for survival is really a self-serving series of blows and stabs, and yet it can lead to extremely social animals like…

— Frans de Waal

Every animal would rather die themselves than lose their offspring. But it's just genes, isn't it? All of our existence is spent worrying about…

— Robert Smith

Humans aren't afraid to die...they are afraid to be forgotten after death.

— Bernajoy Vaal

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed…

— Ernest Becker

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

— Daniel Suarez

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified…

— Cate Blanchett

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

— Daniel Goleman

I am secretly afraid of animals… I think it is because of the usness in their eyes, with the underlying not-usness which beliesit, and…

— Edith Wharton