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No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure how many species… — E. O. Wilson
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion of totalitarian governments.… — E. O. Wilson
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of civil or religious… — Charles Caleb Colton
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a… — Louis Kronenberger
An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live… — Thomas Paine
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. — Sydney J. Harris
Endangered species are our friends. — Yao Ming
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as we know, has… — Stephen Fry
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species. — Gary Zukav
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. — David Whyte
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,… — Lewis Thomas
In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the… — Konrad Lorenz
Of what use are the great number of petrifactions, of different species, shape and form which are dug up by naturalists? Perhaps the collection of… — Carl Linnaeus
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some, resemblance is everything… — Charles Darwin
This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the… — Pope John Paul II
We are the only species on this planet without full employment. — Paul Hawken
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species. — Frederick The Great
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on… — David Hume
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature… — Immanuel Kant
When Charles Darwin wrote The Origin Of The Species, no one could have known that the ice cap would melt, that the waters would rise… — Alexander McQueen

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