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Species Quotes by Christopher Hitchens
- The teachings of Christianity - from vicarious redemption to the love of enemies, no thought for the morrow need be taken, that no thrift or…
- One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you…
- The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being…
- In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or…
- The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species.
- Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more powerful and sophisticated…
- Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms…
- The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
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- 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