Mammalian Quotes
16 quotes by 15 authors
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I suspect that religion is a necessary evil in the childhood of our particular species. And that's one of the interesting things about contact with…
— Arthur C. Clarke
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Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from the jungle yet…
— Paul Watson
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When a scientist considers all high-tech mental machinery needed to arrange words into ordinary sentences, prescriptive rules are, at best, inconsequential little decorations. The very…
— Steven Pinker
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That work led to the emergence of the recombinant DNA technology thereby providing a major tool for analyzing mammalian gene structure and function and formed…
— Paul Berg
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Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight…
— John Desmond Bernal
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If one loves stories, then one would naturally love the story of the story. Or the story behind the story, pick your preposition. It does…
— Lorrie Moore
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Sometime during the many millions of years that have elapsed since mammalian faunas came into existence, some sort of island crossed from West Africa to…
— Louis Leakey
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As every parent knows, children go through an adolescent growth spurt, during which they put on inches at an alarming rate. Humans are unique in…
— Richard Leakey
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...I realized that there was a thrilling undiscovered country to be explored in the mechanisms of the mammalian nervous system. Through it, one might approach…
— Wilder Penfield
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Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.
— Frank Zappa
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And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no…
— William Gibson
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Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more likely to rear…
— Frans de Waal
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One can choose to obsess over prescriptive rules, but they have no more to do with human language than the criteria for judging cats at…
— Steven Pinker
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In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when…
— Marianne Williamson
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We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now…
— Michael Smith
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Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.
— Catharine R Stimpson
Who Wrote These Mammalian Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 16 Mammalian Quotes as follows: