Best Our Species Sayings

127 Our Species quotes by 98 unique authors

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness,… — Alan D. Eames
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,… — Carl Sagan
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our… — Carl Sagan
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. — Dalai Lama
The ultimate goal is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. The implications of such a classification for the origin… — Joseph H. Greenberg
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited… — Carl Sagan
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the… — Gary Zukav
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. — Mahatma Gandhi
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon and Jupiter... Given… — Johannes Kepler
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as if we were… — Washington Irving
If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. — Martin Seligman
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the… — Mark Hyman, M.D.
Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. — Saul Bellow
Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... — Carl Sagan
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.… — Carl Sagan
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation… — Desmond Morris
Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than… — Desmond Morris
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species… — Lewis Thomas
Wherever a story comes from, whether it is a familiar myth or a private memory, the retelling exemplifies the making of a connection from one… — Mary Catherine Bateson
I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories, choosing an appropriate… — Joyce Carol Oates
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can be rationally directed… — Timothy Leary
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only… — Stephen Hawking
We of course have our problems, to say the least, in comportment towards ourselves and our environment, but admittance to the cosmos and the spatial… — Paul Levinson

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