I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
On a boat cruising down east, sardines are scooped out of the holding seine at Eastport at dawn. 'Sardines' may be any… — Luis Marden Copy Share Image
My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human.… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
Contrary to general belief, humans imitate apes more than the reverse. The sight of monkeys or apes induces an irresistible urge in… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Copy Share Image
Among the innumerable Footsteps of Divine Providence to be found in the Works of Nature, there is a very remarkable one to… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
The war between authors and publishers has been a conflict of ages. On the one side, the publisher has been looked upon… — Mary Abigail Dodge Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population… — Andrew Lo Copy Share Image
We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the… — Alexander McQueen 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
The neutral zone of selective advantage in the neighbourhood of zero is thus so narrow that changes in the environment, and in… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We are living in an historic moment. We are each called to take part in a great transformation. Our survival as a… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image