Biology Quote by Ezra Pound

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

— Ernest Becker

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he…

— Konrad Lorenz

Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned…

— Rene Dubos

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see…

— Philip Wylie

Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

— Anonymous

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

— Ray Comfort

“Man is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body…

— Ernest Becker

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

— Bill Gaede

But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has a rather…

— Jacob Bronowski

Man not only survives and functions in his environment, he shapes it and he is shaped by it.

— Rene Dubos

Man, biologically considered ... is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its…

— William James