Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

Theodosius Dobzhansky
Some Similar Quotes
  1. We could do it, you know."" What?"" Leave the district. Run off. Live in the woods. You and I, we could make it. - Suzanne Collins

  2. If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them. - Michael Bassey Johnson

  3. I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to... - Tana French

  4. Loving someone always requires you to not love others. - Koushun Takami

  5. Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen. The stubborn retention of it, even in the face of extreme physical hardship, can hold a man's soul in his body long past the point at which the body should have surrendered it. - Laura Hillenbrand

More Quotes By Theodosius Dobzhansky
  1. Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.

  2. Seen in the light of evolution, biology is, perhaps, intellectually the most satisfying and inspiring science. Without that light it becomes a pile of sundry facts -- some of them interesting or curious but making no meaningful picture as a whole.

  3. The evolution of life, and the evolutionary origin of mankind, are scientifically established as firmly and completely as any historical event not witnessed by human observers. Any concession to anti-evolutionists, suggesting that there are scientific reasons to doubt the facticity of evolution, would be propagating...

  4. Nature's stern discipline enjoins mutual help at least as often as warfare. The fittest may also be the gentlest.

  5. No evidence is powerful enough to force acceptance of a conclusion that is emotionally distasteful.

Related Topics