Someone who thinks well of himself is said to have a healthy self-concept and is envied. Someone who thinks well of his… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish… — Rose George Copy Share Image
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Where we are going as a species is a big question. Human evolution certainly hasn't stopped. Every time individuals produce a new… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
The human species took a crucial step forward when its vocal musculature came under operant control in the production of speech sounds.… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Abraham Maslow said that the fully realized person transcends his local group and identifies with the species. But the election of Ronald… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of… — John Searle Copy Share Image
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Clear-cutting" was the word for what the Rusties had done to the old forests: felling every tree, killing every living thing, turning… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
Civilization has ceased to be that delicate flower which was preserved and painstakingly cultivated in one or two sheltered areas of a… — Claude Levi-Strauss Copy Share Image
It is a celebrated thought of Socrates, that if all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stock, in order… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I've argued that many of what philosophers call moral sentiments can be seen in other species. In chimpanzees and other animals, you… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The tribe is whatever we believe it is. If we say the tribe is all the Little Ones in the forest, and… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
When it was first said that the sun stood still and world turned round, the common sense of mankind declared the doctrine… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Money, power, love, sex (until they get married), adulation, children, and control. Of these, children cause the most trouble. Women also want… — Larry L. King Copy Share Image
I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what… — Claire Danes Copy Share Image
Well, the world has changed so radically, and we're all running to catch up. I don't want to jump to any conclusions,… — Alan Grant Copy Share Image
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity… — Robert Hall Copy Share Image
As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling… — S. Jay Olshansky Copy Share Image
An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
MAN IS FUNDAMENTALLY AN ANIMAL. Animals, as distinct from man, are not machine-like, not sadistic; their societies, within the same species, are… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
The most significant change wrought by adolescence is the taming of the ideals by which a person measures himself. . . .… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“The ice had been retreating. Humanity had sprung back swiftly, expanded, fought its small wars, re-industrialized, tripping constantly over reminders of what… — Adrian Tchaikovsky Copy Share Image
Can desire grow out of admiration, or are the two quite distinct species? What would it be like to lie side by… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
For millennia the two-million acre redwood ecosystem thrived and sheltered myriad species of life. In the last 150 years, 97 percent of… — Julia Hill Copy Share Image
Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One of the dangers [that Donald Trump poses, due to the augmented risk of nuclear war] is unquestionable. Of the two existential… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
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