Conditions Quote by William Ralph Inge

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

One always returns to the fact that there are just too many of us, the population continues to rise and it's unsustainable

— Jeremy Irons

I generally avoid over-population arguments. But there's no question we're in population overshoot. The catch is we're not going to do anything about it.…

— James Howard Kunstler

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period…

— Thomas Malthus

This preservation of favourable variations and the destruction of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest. Variations neither useful…

— Charles Darwin

If, however, one factor is too successful, it will continue to be the winning factor regardless of the variation in the other factors over…

— Erik Naggum

Survival of the fittest is over. Get over it. We need survival of the wisest.

— Deepak Chopra

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence…

— Thomas Malthus

“It is of our nature to exceed ourselves. Overflowing the mesaure is built into what we are. So, too, is rejoicing in this superabundance…

— Terry Eagleton

Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life…

— Walter Gropius

“Evolution is antifragile! While individuals in the population are fragile, the population as a whole is antifragile.”

— Rich Jolly

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

— Mason Cooley