Sapiens Quotes

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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by Homo Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the saccharine… — Robert A. Heinlein
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves… — E. O. Wilson
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try to add my… — Leo Baekeland
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle
What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences… — J. William Fulbright
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo… — Arthur Koestler
We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been… — Marston Bates
What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences. — Estelle Ramey
What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of… — Peter Singer
There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is… — Desmond Morris
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem… — Ingrid Newkirk
We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy… — David Graeber
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly rendered. The transparency… — Rosy Cole
In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was… — Robert Aickman
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.… — Ellen Meloy
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to… — Robert A. Heinlein
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
My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings -… — Michael Klaper

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