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
Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who,… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The power of this experience [fatherhood] can never be explained. It is one of those joyful codings that rumbles in the species… — Kent Nerburn Copy Share Image
In the process of natural selection, then, any device that can insert a higher proportion of certain genes into subsequent generations will… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and… — Elinor Gadon Copy Share Image
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
But the most common species of love is that which first arises from beauty, and afterwards diffuses itself into kindness and into… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question,… — John Michael Sherlock Copy Share Image
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. — Nathan Wolfe Copy Share Image
There are multitudes of pure and holy spirits waiting to take tabernacles, now what is our duty. To prepare tabernacles for them;… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the… — Jeff Stilson Copy Share Image
To a naturalist nothing is indifferent; the humble moss that creeps upon the stone is equally interesting as the lofty pine which… — James Hutton Copy Share Image
.. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Education is among the most important problems we face because it's the ultimate 'gateway' problem. That is, it drives virtually every global… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
I toyed with the idea of what it might be like to live with some species of heatstroke that maybe didn't go… — Johnny Depp 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
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper . . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Power over seems to be driving our very young species into a ditch because it's from an old competitive, "there may not… — Peter Buffett Copy Share Image
Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking… — Thomas Lovejoy Copy Share Image
The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there… — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing… — Brian Skerry Copy Share Image
Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species,… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or… — David Deutsch 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
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image