In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,… — Peter Wessel Zapffe Copy Share Image
For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him,… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
“...it would be a very naive sort of dogmatism to assume that there exists an absolute reality of things which is the… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
In a fragile environment, we need to be aware of ourselves as members of a uniquely powerful species living among other species… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
The more I think about our species the more I think we just do stuff and make up explanations later when asked.… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We… — Wendy Mass Copy Share Image
We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2)… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead… — Vern Huffman Copy Share Image
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
It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice,… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
We are facing another economic meltdown. The ecosystem, on which the human species depends for life, is being destroyed at a rate… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some… — Leonard Hayflick Copy Share Image