People ache to believe that we human beings are vastly different from all other species - and they are right! We are… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
But I own that I cannot see as plainly as others do, and I should wish to do, evidence of design and… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How many people on Earth serve people? And how many people on Earth serve the Earth? The difference in the numbers must… — Robert Muller Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
One day, through my prayers, an overwhelming amount of love started flowing into me, filling up the dark hole that threatened to… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
There are many other (besides testosterone) behaviour-eliciting hormones fundamental for humen well-being, including estrogen and progesterone in females. The fact that complex… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
We ourselves are part of a guild of species that lie within and without our bodies. Aboriginal peoples and the Ayurvedic practitioners… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're… — Ellar Coltrane Copy Share Image
In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. The essence of man… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Like all animals, human beings have always taken what they want from nature. But we are the rogue species. We are unique… — Edward Burtynsky Copy Share Image
In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
We cannot learn freedom and responsibility within the confines of our own species. We cannot understand life and death and what they… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our… — Patricia Arquette Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Revenge is the thinking man's reflex, a complex blend of action and consistency no other animal species has so far succeeded in… — Jo Nesbo Copy Share Image
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
![“[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the…” quote by H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f10/h-l-mencken-245_aim_the-erroneous-assumption-is-to-the-effec_1758141.jpg)
