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127 Our Species quotes by 98 unique authors

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
I think you just have to turn it around and say we are at this absolute historical moment. No generation has ever been as powerful… — Unknown Author
The problems that stand in the way are not of economical or technological nature. The deepest sources of the global crisis lie inside the human… — Stanislav Grof
The great cognitive shift is an expansion of consciousness from the perspectival form contained in the lives of particular creatures to an objective, world-encompassing form… — Thomas Nagel
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes for those who… — David Deutsch
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking [on the Moon and Jupiter]. .… — Johannes Kepler
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,… — Henning Mankell
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. — Scott McCloud
We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer… — William McDonough
When biological technology becomes further advanced, human beings as we know them, will become a modified species. If we as human beings fail to include… — Jacque Fresco
Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that… — Daniel Keys Moran
To write a book such as Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn is a formidable undertaking. You must accumulate thousands of facts and spare no detail,… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Living in your genome is the history of our species. — Barry Schuler
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is… — Anthony Storr
I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily… — Mahatma Gandhi
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. — Unknown Author
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. — Gary Hamel
History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the… — Thomas B. Macaulay
Creativity is a challenge. It requires us to be fully human -- autonomous yet engaged, independent yet interdependent. Creativity bridges the conflict between our individualistic… — Greg Graffin
We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This… — Desmond Morris
Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side. And they don't… — Andrew Vachss
A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. — Chaim Potok
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in… — Lewis Thomas
All of the Great Teachers throughout the history of our species have merely taught one thing, over & over, in whatever language, at whatever time.… — David Hawkins
Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and… — Ravi Ravindra

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