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1560 Species quotes by 910 unique authors
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Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open…
— Carl Zimmer
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An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend when attacked.
— Margaret Thatcher
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.
— Dean Koontz
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A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will…
— Anita Brookner
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Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones…
— H. Bentley Glass
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Sure I am a religious man who is also passionate about conserving the environment. But I am also a CEO, with all the bad habits…
— Tom Chappell
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From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the whole empire of…
— John Gorrie
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The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic forms traversed is…
— Unknown Author
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To the mind which looks not to general results in the economy of Nature, the earth may seem to present a scene of perpetual warfare,…
— William Buckland
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The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the…
— Douglas J. Futuyma
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Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God…
— Unknown Author
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The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these…
— Plutarch
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For the production of man a different apprenticeship [from forests] was needed to sharpen the wits and quicken the higher manifestations of intellect - a…
— Raymond Dart
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250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for by Darwin.
— David M. Raup
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Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another one. It may…
— Thomas Hunt Morgan
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When students of other sciences ask us what is now currently believed about the origin of species, we have no clear answer to give. Faith…
— William Bateson
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It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.
— Richard Goldschmidt
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Blasphemy laws are...an outdated Orwellian thought-policing species of law that force people into psychological submission by making it a crime to question, criticise and exercise…
— Unknown Author
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This is a real presence which includes every dimension of who Jesus is: body and blood, human soul and divine person. The consecrated Eucharistic species…
— Unknown Author
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You also realize, Venerable Brothers, that the Eucharist is reserved in churches or oratories to serve as the spiritual center of a religious community or…
— Pope Paul VI
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Certainly amongst all devotions, after that of receiving the sacraments, that of adoring Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament holds first place, is most pleasing to…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden.…
— Georges Bataille
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