There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
The great thing about being the only species that makes a distinction between right and wrong is that we can make up… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine. — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to… — Cynthia Kenyon Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Talk of belief in these animals is not some kind of anthropomorphism. We simply cannot explain the kinds of problem solving and… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a… — Carol Matas Copy Share Image
New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
So the horns of the stag are sharp to offend his adversary, but are branched for the purpose of parrying or receiving… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of his history, it is difficult to avoid the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The business of proving evolution has reached a stage when it is futile for biologists to work merely to discover more and… — Theodosius Dobzhansky Copy Share Image
We see ourselves in other people’s eyes. It’s the nature of the human race; we are a species of reflection, hungry for… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species?… — Richard D. Ryder Copy Share Image
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
If Darwin had seen in life what Dostoevsky saw, he would not have talked of the law of the preservation of species,… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and… — John Hay Copy Share Image
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'. — Gary Wright Copy Share Image
“if that “monster” finds the right environment and succeeds, it might just end up changing the species for the better.” — Eric Barker Copy Share Image
To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it — William James Copy Share Image
He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he… — Porphyry Copy Share Image
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred… — Neil Turok Copy Share Image
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image