This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open… — George Washington Copy Share Image
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species.… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. — John M. McHugh Copy Share Image
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration, — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very… — Ira Glass Copy Share Image
This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer,… — Alan D. Eames Copy Share Image
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Lacking a shared language, emotions are perhaps our most effective means of cross-species communication. We can share our emotions, we can understand… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well,… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As a survival-happy species, our successes are calculated in the number of years we have extended our lives, with the reduction of… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
In fact, the Outer Space Treaty of 1967 bans militarization. Potential adversaries of the US, and even its allies, are so far… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
This much I can say with definiteness - namely, that there is no scientific basis for the denial of religion - nor… — Robert Andrews Millikan Copy Share Image
“What constitutes the various species? [...] Here we come up against the perennial question of human thought, which even evolutionism cannot evade:… — Christoph Schönborn Copy Share Image
Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service... We have no real way of knowing whether the kinds of training that… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
The chemical differences among various species and genera of animals and plants are certainly as significant for the history of their origins… — Ray Lankester Copy Share Image
“We, of all the beings that we know of, can think. We can eat, write, build, save. We can predict, estimate, and… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct. — Christopher Cokinos Copy Share Image
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Selam is our most complete skeleton of a three-year-old girl who lived and died 3.3 million years ago. She belongs to the… — Zeresenay Alemseged Copy Share Image
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with… — George Wald Copy Share Image
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others — John Muir Copy Share Image
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