Ambition Quote by Pindar

An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he…

— Robert A. Heinlein

“…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in…

— Margaret Atwood

In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity…

— Nikola Tesla

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

“This is the basic lesson of evolutionary psychology: a need shaped in the wild continues to be felt subjectively even if it is no…

— Yuval Noah Harari

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

— John Dewey

It is a cruel folly to offer up to ostentation so many lives of creatures, as to make up the state of our treats.

— William Penn

Beasts, birds, and insects, even to the minutest and meanest of their kind, act with the unerring providence of instinct; man, the while, who…

— Robert Southey

“To admit that species generally become rare before they become extinct—to feel no surprise at the comparative rarity of one species with another, and…

— Charles Darwin

In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong,…

— Georges Cuvier

“Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty…

— Matthew Scully

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.

— Daniel Kahneman