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It is natural for every man uninstructed to murmur at his condition, because, in the general infelicity of life, he feels his own miseries without… — Samuel Johnson
The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. — Samuel Johnson
Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows… — Mahatma Gandhi
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. — Robert Breault
We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of… — Desmond Morris
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for their classification. But… — Karl Landsteiner
Now when you cut a forest, an ancient forest in particular, you are not just removing a lot of big trees and a few birds… — E. O. Wilson
[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. — E. O. Wilson
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Among innumerable footsteps of divine providence to be found in the works of nature, there is a very remarkable one to be observed in the… — John Arbuthnot
No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and… — E. O. Wilson
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical… — David Lack
[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so as to play a rogue's… — Adam Sedgwick
It is better to have a few forms well known than to teach a little about many hundred species. Better a dozen specimens thoroughly studied… — Louis Agassiz
It seems to me, that the only Objects of the abstract Sciences or of Demonstration is Quantity and Number, and that all Attempts to extend… — David Hume
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken… — H. L. Mencken
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is… — Charles Lyell
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying. — Arthur C. Clarke
About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by… — George Wald
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's minds were prepared… — Charles Darwin
We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species… — Carl Sagan
Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world. The dragons are all dead and the lance grows rusty in the… — Hans Zinsser
The distribution of species on islands and continents throughout the world is exactly what you'd expect if evolution was a fact. The distribution of fossils… — Richard Dawkins
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is… — Abraham Lincoln

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