We have chosen to bring future generations into this world of rising seas and warming temperatures, droughts and floods, heat waves and… — Leonor Varela Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
We live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
I found it possible to observe at least the superficial capillaries of muscles both in the frog and in mammals through a… — August Krogh Copy Share Image
Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in… — Ellsworth Huntington Copy Share Image
Being a caregiver for your child is part of the job description of being a mammal. — Mayim Bialik Copy Share Image
Man is not the most majestic of the creatures; long before the mammals even, the dinosaurs were far more splendid. But he… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
This commonplace cycle of falling asleep and waking, in darkness, under private cover, with another creature, a pale soft tender mammal, putting… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean… — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal. — Walter Gilbert Copy Share Image
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Isimangaliso must be the only place on the globe where the oldest land mammal (rhinoceros) and the world biggest terrestrial mammal (elephant)… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Mammals are very close to us, but bugs are strange. They're more mysterious and exotic. — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes. — Susan Blackmore Copy Share Image
The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about… — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
The civilized people of today look back with horror at their medieval ancestors who wantonly destroyed great works of art or sat… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Compared with mammals, birds have relatively large eyes. In simple terms, a bigger eye means better vision, and excellent vision is essential… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Many images of animals, mammals or birds, resurface regularly in my narratives. They are not symbols, but chromatic benchmarks. For me, music… — Dumitru Tepeneag Copy Share Image
Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It's something I was very hesitant about, but we're the only mammals who don't ingest our own placentas. It's not witchcrafty or… — January Jones Copy Share Image