Decay Quote by Richard Dawkins

We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some mechanism to…

— Aubrey de Grey

Senescence is an inevitability. All we can do is try to strike the balance between graceful acceptance and raging against the dying light.

— Marty Nemko

The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

— S. Jay Olshansky

From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such…

— David Bohm

“Evidence for this theory comes from the finding that every species seems to have a genetically determined maximum lifespan. While the average life expectancy…

— Aisha Utz

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

— Lewis Thomas

Death is an acquired trait.

— Woody Allen

“Decay is inevitable, but death is not.”

— The RZA

“Death: The Final Genetic Code”

— Joey Lawsin

“Evolution is largely a temporal phenomenon, Merrill. The environment changes, and populations in that environment change in turn, or they languish. Individual organisms don't…

— David Marusek

“Tinkering with our genes won’t necessarily kill us. But we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Death is only relevant to "genetic adaptation" insofar as it relates to the capacity for self-reproduction (what is relevant is not that an individual…

— Mitchell Heisman