Extinction Quotes
202 quotes by 176 authors
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
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There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
— Heston Blumenthal
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Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief in the continuity…
— Wernher von Braun
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The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of…
— Jean Dubuffet
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless…
— Steven Weinberg
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[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that…
— Bertrand Russell
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The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of…
— Samuel Adams
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Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
— Hillel the Elder
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I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed…
— Abraham Lincoln
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In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in…
— Abraham Lincoln
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For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary.
— Vladimir Lenin
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All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological…
— Lynn Margulis
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A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
— J. G. Ballard
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The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting from here, the…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.
— Brian Halligan
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To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead…
— Billy Graham
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The number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and India. The costs…
— Paul Brown
Who Wrote These Extinction Quotes
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