René Dubos Quote

Adaptability is an asset for biological survival, but paradoxically, the greatest threat to the quality of human life is that the human species is so immensely adaptable that it can survive even under the most objectionable conditions.


Reason Awake - Chapter 5 (pp. 167-168), Columbia University Press. 1970


Adaptability is an asset for biological survival, but paradoxically, the greatest threat to the quality of human life is that the human species is so ...

Adaptability is an asset for biological survival, but paradoxically, the greatest threat to the quality of human life is that the human species is so ...

Adaptability is an asset for biological survival, but paradoxically, the greatest threat to the quality of human life is that the human species is so ...

Adaptability is an asset for biological survival, but paradoxically, the greatest threat to the quality of human life is that the human species is so ...