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
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
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
In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in… — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
If we recognise that every ecosystem can also be viewed as a food web, we can think of it as a circular,… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
There are two possibilities: Either the kiss is a human universal, one of the constellation of innate traits, including language and laughter,… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals… — Erik P. Eckholm Copy Share Image
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Golden eagles don't mate with bald eagles, deer don't mate with antelope, gray wolves don't mate with red wolves. Just look at… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
While ants exist in just the right numbers for the rest of the living world, humans have become too numerous. If we… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be… — Primo Levi Copy Share Image
There's over 100 species of lemurs. Each is a little bit different in their social structure except for one thing: they are… — Patricia Wright Copy Share Image
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express… — Gregory Colbert Copy Share Image
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
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming,… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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