Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant. — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between… — Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan Copy Share Image
Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
I am provoked at the contempt which most historians show for humanity in general; one would think by them, that the whole… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
These magnificent species of Africa - elephants, rhino, lions, leopards, cheetah, the great apes (Africa has four of the world's five great… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which… — John L. Casti Copy Share Image
There is ... scarcely any species of writing of which we can tell what is its essence, and what are its constituents;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Humans call animals 'dumb'... after they robbed their entire own precious world. They are intelligent beings in their own right, and thoroughly… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Disbelief crept over me at a very slow rate, but at last it was complete. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“In nature, males flaunt. In humans, women outsmart them—with makeup.” — Ljupka Cvetanova Copy Share Image
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People use the word "natural" ... What is natural to me is these botanical species which interact directly with the nervous system.… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
