Genus Quotes

23 Genus quotes by 20 unique authors

Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce
The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing… — Carl Jung
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the… — Carl Linnaeus
...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating… — Aristotle
Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population genetics, and the actual findings… — Ernst Mayr
And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer - a representative of the… — Nadine Gordimer
Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. — Nadine Gordimer
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world… — Hideo Kojima
Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to… — Albert Camus
Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the way computers do. Computers and… — Joseph Weizenbaum
In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of… — Boethius
Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy… — Paul Stamets
Wherefore no name can be found for a new fossil [element] which indicates its peculiar and characteristic properties (in which position I find myself at… — Martin Heinrich Klaproth
He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the… — Porphyry
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. — Alfred Marshall
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as… — Ernst Mayr
All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access… — Judith Anderson
Colonization means potential immortality for the human genus. Man's safety on Earth was never great, and it dwindles hourly. Disarmament, even world government, will not… — Poul Anderson
To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience;… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order… — Carl Linnaeus
We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder -… — Donald Johanson
One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means… — Otto Wallach

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