One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. — St. Jerome Copy Share Image
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown… — Paul MacCready Copy Share Image
The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. — Howard Hodgkin Copy Share Image
My lord, lawyers are a dangerous species of animals till ha'e any dependence upon--they are always starting punctilios and deeficulties among friends.… — Charles Macklin Copy Share Image
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it… — Robert J. Sawyer Copy Share Image
This great increase of the quantity of work which, in consequence of the division of labour, the same number of people are… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
After observing mutations in fruit flies for many years, Professes Goldschmidt fell into despair. The changes, he lamented, were so hopelessly micro… — Norman Macbeth Copy Share Image
Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why… — Eckhart Tolle 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
Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons. — Pierce Brosnan 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
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information,… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image