Specimens Quotes

58 quotes by 53 authors

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner
Human beings may be miserable specimens, in the main, but we can learn, and, through learning, become decent people. — Orson Scott Card
Cultural survival is not about preservation, sequestering indigenous peoples in enclaves like some sort of zoological specimens. Change itself does note destroy a culture. All… — Wade Davis
We...we could be friends.' We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not. — Neil Gaiman
My mother is currently associating with some undesirables who are attempting to transform her into an athlete of sorts, deprave specimens of mankind who regularly… — John Kennedy Toole
Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they… — Cormac McCarthy
Many women to whom I have preached the doctrine of freedom have weakly replied, 'But who is to support the children?' It seems to me… — Isadora Duncan
Look at me!" I roar. "Do you think you'll be the first I've killed today? I wasn't a murderer, but you changed me. I'm a… — Darren Shan
I am one in a row of specimens. It's when I try to flutter out of line that he hates me. I'm meant to be… — John Fowles
And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked;… — Gavin Douglas
God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day… — Mark Twain
I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes. — Jack Horner
In a private room he showed me the first specimens of gold, that is he was not certain if it was gold or not, but… — John Sutter
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two… — George Bentham
I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa, more… — Richard Leakey
You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do… — Lennart Nilsson
Us, we are but a step on the ladder of evolution, specimens that inherit, learn, create and develop their inner and outer steps, speculate and… — Mariana Fulger
The criminals are bad specimens of human beings. It is the duty of the government to eliminate crimes. They should try to prevent crimes by… — T Joseph Benziger

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