The whole [scientific] process resembles biological evolution. A problem is like an ecological niche, and a theory is like a gene or… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation,… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. — Lois Crisler Copy Share Image
You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species. — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
There are over a million types of fish in the sea as there are flowers in all of the world's gardens. There… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I have been honored to serve the whales, dolphins, seals - and all the other creatures on this Earth. Their beauty, intelligence,… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
They who lack talent expect things to happen without effort. They ascribe failure to a lack of inspiration or ability, or to… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and… — George Wald Copy Share Image
Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks.… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. — James Gleick Copy Share Image