Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand at 200 species… — Lierre Keith
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. — Peter Drucker
I'm quite mad by nature, and it's my craziness that has saved me from extinction. — Marco Pantani
We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined us so closely… — Pope Francis
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation,… — Stewart Brand
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of… — Mark Lynas
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction, we… — Eban Goodstein
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity. — Ezra Pound
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. — Edward Teller
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring the stars â€¦… — Elon Musk
Today's environment is beginning to threaten today's organizations, finding them seriously deficient in their nervous system design... The degree of coordination, perception, rational adaptation, etc.,… — Douglas Engelbart
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history of violence in… — Brian Swimme
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction. — John Keegan
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. — Darren Shan
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more… — Denis Hayes
Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching. Fight it. — Peter Thiel
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction - 'sacred motors' linked… — Leos Carax
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence. — Oliver Lodge

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