Animals Quotes

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Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals' suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote. — Paul Harvey
There is in all animals a sense of duty that man condescends to call instinct. — Robert Breault
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire. — Robert Breault
From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists… — Victor Hugo
Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not yet occupied by… — Charles Lyell
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will… — Maurice Maeterlinck
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
We do not ask what hope of gain makes a little bird warble, since we know that it takes delight in singing because it is… — Johannes Kepler
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized organs are manifestations… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Stones grow, plants grow, and live, animals grow live and feel. — Carl Linnaeus
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of man, for the mental life… — Wilhelm Wundt
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity. — Charles Darwin
There was a golden period that I look back upon with great regret, in which the cheapest of experimental animals were medical students. Graduate students… — George Wald
For Nature is accustomed to rehearse with certain large, perhaps baser, and all classes of wild (animals), and to place in the imperfect the rudiments… — Marcello Malpighi
Natural bodies are divided into three kingdomes of nature: viz. the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. Minerals grow, Plants grow and live, Animals grow, live,… — Carl Linnaeus
American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains. — Christine O'Donnell
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work, worthy the interposition of a great deity. More humble and I believe true to consider him… — Charles Darwin
As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men… — Isaac Bashevis Singer

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