Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. — Samuel Beckett
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
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
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
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
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
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
[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
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
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. — Hillel the Elder
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
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
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin
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
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. — J. G. Ballard
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
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
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
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

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