Species Quotes · Page 10

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

— Walter Lang

“How do we love all children, of all species, of all time?”

— William McDonough

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats.

— Mark Twain

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

— Hugh Lofting

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

— Paulo Coelho

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate

— Ernst Mayr

“Betrayal and grief have a certain color no matter what the species is.”

— Cecil Castellucci

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species.

— Howard Hodgkin

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.'

— Kirk Cameron

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only…

— Virginia Woolf

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers.

— Jonathan Haidt

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence…

— Buzz Aldrin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change

— Anonymous

If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid…

— Tom Douglas

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely…

— Peter Diamandis

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc.

— Charles Studd

We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions,…

— Dean Koontz

Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or…

— Jerome Kagan

People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there…

— Dwight Schultz

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…

— E. O. Wilson

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to…

— Wallace Stegner

Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human…

— Richard Dawkins

The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.…

— Douglas Adams

I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever…

— Franny Armstrong

It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of…

— Gerard K. O'Neill

I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual…

— Richard Flanagan

Two weevils crept from the crumbs. 'You see those weevils, Stephen?' said Jack solemnly. I do.' Which would you choose?' There is…

— Patrick O'Brian

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should…

— Bruce Chatwin

My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful…

— Henry Rollins

The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,…

— Arthur Koestler

The nobility of the human spirit grows harder for me to believe in. War, zealotry, greed, malls, narcissism. I see a backhanded…

— Mary Roach

Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the…

— Sam Harris

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men.

— Letitia Baldrige

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

— Charles Lamb

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species.

— Michael Crichton

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

— Eckhart Tolle

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

— Diane Ackerman

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

— Virginia Woolf

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

— Barry Schuler

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species.

— Dennis McKenna