Biology Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Man is the "ethical animal" ethical in potentiality even if, unfortunately, not in actuality. His capacity for ethical judgment like freedom, reason and the…

— Rollo May

“Man is not a solitary animal, and so long as social Life survives, self-realization cannot be the supreme principle of ethics.”

— Bertrand Russell

A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men,…

— Albert Schweitzer

“Our treatment of animals and our attitude toward them are crucial not only to any pretensions we have to ethical behavior but the humankind's…

— Joy Williams

The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships and the…

— Peter Singer

...Ethics has not only to do with mankind but with the animal creation as well. This is witnessed in the purpose of St. Francis…

— Albert Schweitzer

“There is a strange duality in the human which makes for an ethical paradox. We have definitions of good qualities and of bad; not…

— John Steinbeck

Humans, the supremely social mammals, are ethical and intellectual sponges. We unconsciously absorb, for good or ill, the influences that surround us.

— George Monbiot

Man is the most dangerous, destructive, selfish, and unethical animal on earth.

— Michael Fox

The meaning that we are seeking in evolution is its meaning to us, to man. The ethics of evolution must be human ethics. It…

— George Gaylord Simpson

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen