We Icelanders are an excellent animal model for humans. This is exactly the way you find common disease genes. — Kari Stefansson Copy Share Image
We must not suppose that, because a man is a rational animal, he will, therefore, always act rationally; or, because he has… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
'Time's noblest offspring is the last.' This line of Bishop Berkeley's expresses the real cause of the belief in progress in the… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who really helped people to have a little humility and realize that we… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Man is a fighting animal; his thoughts are his banners, and it is a failure of nerve in him if they are… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Though neither happiness nor respect are worth anything, because unless both are coming from the truest motives, they are simply deceits. A… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
We should take good care of the domestic animals we have brought into existence until they die. We should stop bringing more… — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in… — Edward Thorndike Copy Share Image
Dogs and other animals - goats, donkeys, cows, a grumpy rooster - continue to change my writing life. — Jon Katz Copy Share Image
We can't test these absolute limits on humans. We can't blast them with sound. However, we can do that to animals because… — John Baird Copy Share Image
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Wind does not need translation. It speaks the language of men, of animals and birds, of rocks and trees and earth and… — Jessica Day George Copy Share Image
People, houses, streets, animals, flowers-everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately… — Felix Marti-Ibanez Copy Share Image
Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog; but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog. — Douglas Malloch Copy Share Image
How does it feel? I feels exactly like one of those dreams in which you suddenly realize that you have to take… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering. — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
Auschwitz begins wherever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Though if love was an animal, Garret knew, it would probably be the Loch Ness Monster. If it didn’t exist, that didn’t… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
Religion's pretty pervasive in humans. And why it's pervasive in humans is debated a lot. There are indications of things that look… — Hal Whitehead Copy Share Image
Animals fascinate me because you can find a force, an energy, a fear that also exists in sex. — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
'Animal House' was sort of the first real, contemporary, youthful voice of the baby boom generation. It spoke to that audience, and… — Tim Matheson Copy Share Image
I love animals. When I was young, I had two St. Bernards, I still have a dog, I have a lot of… — Jackie Chan Copy Share Image
We hit and we kept on hitting; we were allowed to be what we were, frightened and vengeful — little animals, clawing… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant. In… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Will the things that are being lost - the wilderness, the plants and animals, the skills, and all the others - leave… — David Ehrenfeld Copy Share Image
Having had so many human rats in my life, I don't think I'm scared of the animal variety. — Lady Colin Campbell Copy Share Image
The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited,… — Bindi Irwin Copy Share Image
Closeness to animals creates the desire to understand them, and not just a little piece of them, but the whole animal. It… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The problem with cats is that they get the exact same look on their face whether they see a moth or an… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
They that examine into the Nature of Man, abstract from Art and Education, may observe, that what renders him a Sociable Animal,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
Even if you could use all the organic material that you have--the animal manures, the human waste, the plant residues--and get them… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
