We may be living at that moment, on the cusp, when we go from being a species that feels a kind of… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some pundits have proposed that the aliens have come here to breed with us. Apparently, too much bike riding or something similar… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking,… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint… — David Korten Copy Share Image
When you look at what is happening to our world-and it is hard to look at what's happening to our water, our… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Order can arise from chaos without anyone or anything directing the process when unstable combinations of atoms perish and others persist. In… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You bet I write disaster fiction. We have compiled a disastrous record on this planet, a record of stupidity and absurdity and… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved… — Marcus du Sautoy Copy Share Image
Well, it's one of the things that will. Words are good, and words help us become the leading species on earth to… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
From out of nowhere, Phury felt an overwhelming tide of guilt, like someone had popped the lid off all his deepest concerns… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
The evil that has resulted from the error of the schools, in teaching natural philosophy as an accomplishment only, has been that… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The three pillars of development (economic, social and environmental) must be strengthened together. But it is evident that two of the pillars… — Dave Hampton Copy Share Image
If we human beings rely only on material development, we can’t be sure of a positive outcome. Employing technology motivated by anger… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Education is a technology that tries to make up for what the human mind is innately bad at. Children don't have to… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The reduced variability of small populations is not always due to accidental gene loss, but sometimes to the fact that the entire… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip,… — Robert A. Heinlein 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
With women, my wiring shorts out. My senses respond to the physical and the chemical, the scent and sheen of her. Evil… — Paul Levine Copy Share Image
The costs of an ignorance of science are nor just practical ones like misbegotten policies, forgone cures, and a unilateral disarmament in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
It is obvious that the great majority of humans throughout history have had grossly, even ridiculously, unrealistic concepts of the world. Man… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
Once women invented farming, and began to keep and breed animals, they discovered the crucial function of the rooster and the henhouse.… — Frank Pittman 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
Galen , in the third section of his book, "The Use of the Limbs," says correctly that it would be in vain… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
As many more individuals of each species are born than can possibly survive; and as, consequently, there is a frequently recurring struggle… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards: First, the notion that nonhuman animals do… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image