FastSaying

There are lots of different strategies that an animal can use to survive. What a worm does is try to convert food into worms as soon as possible. In three days a single worm produces 300 progeny. So why put your resources into developing if you can make a brand-new worm in no time at all?

Cynthia Kenyon

AnimalBrand-NewConvertDaysDevelopingDifferentDoesFoodLotsMakePossibleProducesPutResourcesSingleSoonStrategiesSurviveThreeTimeTo SurviveTryUseWhyWormWormsYouYour

Related Quotes

With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
— J. J. Abrams
JustKidsSurvive
Just like an animal, when you want to survive, you don't think anymore.
— Bela Karolyi
AnimalAnymoreJust
With worms you can just change genes at random and see if you can find a mutant that does what you want it to do.
— Cynthia Kenyon
ChangeDoesFind
Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.
— Karl Lagerfeld
DressSurviveTo Survive
To survive is to win.
— Zhang Yimou
SurviveTo SurviveWin