Higher Animals Quotes

12 quotes by 7 authors

• From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals,… — Charles Darwin
• I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I… — Mark Twain
• Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and… — Mark Twain
• Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide… — Mark Twain
• Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us. — Albert Einstein
• It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from… — Mark Twain
• The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than… — C.S. Lewis
• The cell was the first invention of the animal kingdom, and all higher animals are and must be cellular in structure. Our tissues were formed… — John M. Tyler
• Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is… — Mark Twain
• But complex animals had obtained their adaptive flexibility at some cost--they had traded one dependency for another. It was no longer necessary to change their… — Michael Crichton
• We think we know that chimpanzees are higher animals and earthworms are lower, we think we've always known what that means, and we think evolution… — Richard Dawkins
• There is no fundamental difference between man and the higher mammals in their mental faculties...The difference in mind between man and the higher animals, great… — Charles Darwin

Who Wrote These Higher Animals Quotes

7 authors contributed a total of 12 Higher Animals Quotes as follows:

• 5 Higher Animals Quotes by Mark Twain
• 2 Higher Animals Quotes by Charles Darwin
• 1 Higher Animals Quote by Albert Einstein
• 1 Higher Animals Quote by C.S. Lewis
• 1 Higher Animals Quote by John M. Tyler
• 1 Higher Animals Quote by Michael Crichton
• 1 Higher Animals Quote by Richard Dawkins