Best Our Species Quotes
127 Our Species quotes by 98 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
— Barry Schuler
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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
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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
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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
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We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
— Gary Hamel
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life.
— Chaim Potok
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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
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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
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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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