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Species Quotes by Charles Lyell
- 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…
- Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have been created in…
- It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are…
- Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.
- The ordinary naturalist is not sufficiently aware that when dogmatizing on what species are, he is grappling with the whole question of the organic world…
- The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best be cleared up…
More Species Quotes
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- 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