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127 Our Species quotes by 98 unique authors

I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into being, but left… — Clive Barker
To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same… — Peter Singer
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are going… — Timothy Leary
I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes… — Karen Marie Moning
But technology is the real skin of our species. Humanity, correctly seen in the context of the last five hundred years, is an extruder of… — Terence McKenna
The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. — Christopher Hitchens
Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within… — Marianne Williamson
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species. The question for… — Jasper Fforde
Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not… — Sam Harris
It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. — Wendell Berry
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms… — Christopher Hitchens
The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,… — Christopher Hitchens
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and… — Wole Soyinka
Evolution has no long-term goal. There is no long-distance target, no final perfection to serve as a criterion for selection, although human vanity cherishes the… — Richard Dawkins
If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have… — Georges Cuvier
I want my great-granddaughter to have a fairly good understanding of the world in which I lived for 81 years and also the world before… — Sidney Poitier
Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In… — Rick Yancey
I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because… — Sherwin B. Nuland
Empty heads, cognitive science has taught us, learn nothing. The powerful cultural and personal flexibility of our species is owed at least in part to… — Paul Bloom
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of… — John James Audubon
In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God… — Martin Seligman
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. — Lawrence M. Krauss
That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was,… — Dr Carl Sagan
Millions of years ago, we evolved three basic drives: the sex drive, romantic love and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded… — Suman Rai
''I dream of a humanity that is based on tolerance and acceptance.'' ''I don't like seeing our species exacerbate each other.'' — Jeremy Limn

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