No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas 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
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our… — Louise Leakey 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
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Woods and forests have been essentialt to the imagination of these islands, and of countries throughout the world, for centuries. It is… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin.… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them… — Neil Cross Copy Share Image
The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
Is there any indication we shouldn't be depressed - are you living on the same planet that I am? Do you ever… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
A diverse ecosystem will also be resilient, because it contains many species with overlapping ecological functions that can partially replace one another.… — Fritjof Capra Copy Share Image
At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value. — Ashley Montagu 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
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because it's the world's largest land mass and offered the most… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the… — James Cromwell Copy Share Image
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
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