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Species Quotes by Carl Sagan
- Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…
- We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
- 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…
- Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with…
- It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with…
- We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly recognized dangers threaten…
- If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea,…
- We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who…
- The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our…
- Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth.
- The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn…
- We are one species. We are starstuff.
- What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited…
- Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...
- We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.
- Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
- Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history.…
- Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
- Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of…
- You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so…
- A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We…
- We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor…
- Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also…
More Species Quotes
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough
- Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — Michele Bachmann
- The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry
- As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways,… — Martha Beck
- U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Bono
- Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species. — Buzz Aldrin