Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile,… — William Sims Copy Share Image
The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe,… — Harry Johnston Copy Share Image
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
This view, as a rounded whole and in all its essential elements, has very recently disappeared from science. It died a royal… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
Having studied biology really helped me a lot because I quickly understand how biological systems work, and how they fail, and the… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological… — William McDonough Copy Share Image
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
