"We are placed in the genus of Homo,……" — Donald Johanson
"We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men."
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27 Quotes by Donald Johanson
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I think that many of my ideas are correct, but I'll bet you, before my death other discoveries will be…
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Most Achievers I Know Are People Who Have Made A Strong And Deep Dedication to Pursuing A Particular Goal. That…
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And what I wanted to do was, I wanted to explore problems and areas where we didn't have answers. In…
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As an undergraduate, I had an opportunity to go on a number of archeological digs. So I had experience excavating,…
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My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in…
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Scientists are very afraid of being proven wrong.
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Commitment, belief and positive attitude are all important if you're going to be a success, whether you're in sports, in…
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In our case, finding a Lucy is unique. No one will ever find another Lucy. You can't order one from…
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But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years.…
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Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or…
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a…
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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total…
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More Genus Quotes
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one of 23 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves…
— Carl Jung
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Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names…
— Carl Linnaeus
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...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our…
— Aristotle
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Paleontologists had long been aware of a seeming contradiction between Darwin's postulate of gradualism, confirmed by the work of population…
— Ernst Mayr
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And this indifference is still very much present in modern South Africa. Just listen to Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer…
— Nadine Gordimer
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Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of…
— Nadine Gordimer
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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the…
— Hideo Kojima
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Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love…
— Albert Camus
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Man is not a machine, ... although man most certainly processes information, he does not necessarily process it in the…
— Joseph Weizenbaum
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In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is…
— Boethius
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