A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. — Lascelles Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons. — Pierce Brosnan Copy Share Image
99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions. — Emma Mackey Copy Share Image
We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
“We were more alike than any of the others, neither of us quite human and both hated by the two species we… — Kevin Reaver Copy Share Image
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. — Ellis Marsalis, Jr Copy Share Image
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it… — Mladen Đorđević Copy Share Image
And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never… — Dean H. Kenyon Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
It is good to keep in mind ... that nobody has ever succeeded in producing even one new species by the accumulation… — Richard Goldschmidt Copy Share Image
Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for?… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
Evolutionary biologists often avoid using the term "race" because there is so much racist baggage that comes with the term. However, they… — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
There are several ways we can know what a dog, a bird or, indeed, any other organism can see, for example either… — Tim Birkhead Copy Share Image
The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene… — William Buckland Copy Share Image
We're told, often enough, that as a species we are poised on the edge of the abyss. It's possible that our puffed-up,… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived… — David Hume Copy Share Image
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief. "Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
We are inescapably the result of a long heritage of learning, adaptation, mutation and evolution, the product of a history which predates… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. — Andreas Gursky Copy Share Image
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. — William Godwin Copy Share Image
There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
