# Quote — Andy Weir, The Martian

> Amazingly, some of the bacteria survived. The population is strong and growing. That’s pretty impressive, when you consider it was exposed to near-vacuum and subarctic temperatures for over twenty-four hours.
>
> My guess is pockets of ice formed around some of the bacteria, leaving a bubble of survivable pressure inside, and the cold wasn’t quite enough to kill them. With hundreds of millions of bacteria, it only takes one survivor to stave off extinction.
>
> Life is amazingly tenacious. They don’t want to die any more than I do.

- Author: [Andy Weir](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir.md)
- Book: [The Martian](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian.md)
- Page: 224
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## More from this book

> As you can see, this plan provides many opportunities for me to die in a fiery explosion.

p. 29 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/as-you-can.md)

> As a chemist, Vogel knew how to make a bomb. In fact, much of his training was to avoid making them by mistake.

p. 358 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/as-a-chemist.md)

> Then I sat for a moment, dumbstruck that my plan had actually worked.

p. 318 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andy-weir/the-martian/then-i-sat.md)