Species Quotes · Page 16

If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on…

— Carl Sagan

I read the 'Old Testament' all the way through when I was about 13 and was horrified. A few months afterwards I…

— Terry Pratchett

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing…

— Frances Moore Lappé

The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts…

— Desmond Morris

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads.

— Ellen Glasgow

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.

— Havelock Ellis

We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge…

— Wangari Maathai

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

— Keith Devlin

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to…

— Richard Goldschmidt

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they…

— Jose Mujica

Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here…

— Dan Simmons

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

— Daniel H. Wilson

This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies…

— Pope John Paul II

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable…

— Charles Darwin

Power is just using energy in a wise way to get things done. Power has been misinterpreted to mean getting my way…

— Elizabeth Lesser

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we…

— Jeffrey Kluger

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

— W. Somerset Maugham

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like…

— E. O. Wilson

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything.

— Rafe Esquith

One cannot avoid a certain feeling of disgust, when one observes the actions of man displayed on the great stage of the…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Dean Koontz

Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an…

— Giordano Bruno

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand…

— Brian Greene