Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually. — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“Fear may blind us to the fact that individual survival often depends on working with others.” — Matt J. Rossano Copy Share Image
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. — Elliott Sober Copy Share Image
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the… — Daniel Keys Moran Copy Share Image
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account,… — Frank Zindler Copy Share Image
You're only delaying the inevitable. I have the Tacitus. I am invincible. The Tacitus told me of Tiberium missiles, of invulnerable flying… — Kane Copy Share Image
Without knowing it, we utilize hundreds of products each day that owe their origin to wild animals and plants. Indeed our welfare… — Norman Myers Copy Share Image
'Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less… — George Washington Copy Share Image
This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, was published in 1859. It is perhaps the most influential book that has ever been… — Henry Lipson Copy Share Image
We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Giant Ocean Tank, with its 52 large viewing windows, is the main attraction here. Myrtle, a giant green sea turtle, is… — John Grant Copy Share Image
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I have said that poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
This is a real presence which includes every dimension of who Jesus is: body and blood, human soul and divine person. The… — Francis George Copy Share Image
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars. — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were… — Judith Kelman Copy Share Image
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari Copy Share Image
Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.' — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I've come through things that would have felled an ox. That fills me with optimism, not just for myself but for our… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. — Ralph Abraham Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
