A Quote by Denis Hayes
As a student of conservation biology, I believe that characteristics with survival value will ultimately prevail. There is no survival value in pessimism. If you think failure is inevitable, that view will probably become self-fulfilling.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
