One Species Quotes

37 quotes by 31 authors

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer… — Richard Goldschmidt
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually… — Joel Sartore
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has… — Stephen Fry
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and… — Douglas Adams
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may… — Thomas Hunt Morgan
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.… — E. O. Wilson
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species. — James Madison
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? — Yiyun Li
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. — Aldo Leopold
We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And… — Paul Watson
Because one species is more clever than another, does it give it the right to imprison or torture the less clever species? Does one exceptionally… — Richard D. Ryder
I am actually weary of telling people that I do not pretend to adduce [direct] evidence of one species changing into another, but I believe… — Charles Darwin
We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. — Mark Lynas
Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it… — E. O. Wilson
That natural selection can produce changes within a type is disputed by no one, not even the staunchest creationist. But that it can transform one… — Robert J. Sawyer
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million?… — Freeman Dyson
Speaking of dust, â€˜out of which we came and to which we shall return,â€™ do you know that after we are dead our corpses are… — Joris-Karl Huysmans
The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to anotherâ€¦.No. It wasnâ€™t dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment… — Lynn Margulis
The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another]. — Richard Goldschmidt
The world was not made for any one species. — Daniel Quinn

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