Extinct Quotes

135 quotes by 117 authors

The human race could go extinct and I for one would not shed any tears. — David Foreman
We've been trained to squint into a legal microscope, hoping that we can judge any dispute against the standard of a perfect society, where everyone… — Philip K. Howard
We've restored life where life was extinct. It's no longer sufficient to bring the dead back to life. We must create from the beginning, we… — Jimmy Sangster
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the… — Hugh Jackman
In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish together, content with the way… — Laozi
A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and… — Charles Darwin
When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon… — George Orwell
Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in… — Swami Vivekananda
If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years. — Albert Einstein
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears. — Octavio Paz
This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species… — Lierre Keith
Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you… — Kim Stanley
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. — Jeanette Winterson
Faced with a new mutation in an organism, or a fundamental change in its living conditions, the biologist is frequently in no position whatever to… — George Wald
Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality… — Swami Vivekananda
The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now. — Abraham Lincoln
Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also… — Chris Noth
Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved… — George Gaylord Simpson
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences… — Daniel Dennett

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