Alternatives Quote by Ian Tattersall Download Open image “The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.” — Ian Tattersall ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alternatives Extinction Good thing Good things Stagnation
Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
What I would say is that in its first iteration, Extinction Rebellion is really about democracy, by calling in for these new democratic forms… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
Perhaps we will one day be able at least to admit of a God possessing sufficient majesty and expansiveness to transcend the limits of… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Behavior is ultimately the product of the brain, the most mysterious organ of them all. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Hominids typically haven't so much adapted to change, as they have accommodated to it. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“some current controversies are caused, or at least stoked, by a reluctance to abandon received ideas that may well have outlived their usefulness.” — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
It is...highly probable that from the very beginning, apart from death, the only ironclad rule of human experience has been the Law of Unintended… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“For over a century, an evolving microcosm of Anthropology’s turbulent history has hidden behind the staid façade of the American Museum of Natural History.… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
When environments change, they usually do so pretty rapidly, at rates with which adaptation by natural selection would be hard put to keep up.… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Inside our skulls are fish, reptile and shrew brains, as well as the highest centers that allow us to integrate information in our unique… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
“Human beings, on the other hand, are symbolic creatures. Inside their heads they break down the outside world into a mass of mental symbols,… — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
I am very sad that some designers are still using real fur when the fake alternatives are so effective and so easily obtainable. — Twiggy Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
I strongly reject any conceptual scheme that places our options on a line, and holds that the only alternative to a pair of extreme… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Conventional agriculture has never succeeded in feeding the world, and it's never produced anything good to eat. For the future, we need to look… — Dan Barber Copy Share Image
[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative. — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
If one could have a wish, or an alternative life, I would've liked to have been John Lennon. — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
THE REAL PURPOSE OF HOLOCAUST REVISIONISM IS TO MAKE NATIONAL SOCIALISM AN ACCEPTABLE POLITICAL ALTERNATIVE AGAIN. — Harold Covington Copy Share Image
Men since the beginning of time have sought peace...military alliances, balances of power, leagues of nations, all in turn have failed, leaving the only… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Buddhist words such as compassion and emptiness don't mean much until we start cultivating our innate ability simply to be there with pain with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Maximise the alternative forms in which a user might receive a service, and the alternative sources of supply. — Don Chipp Copy Share Image
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only… — Michael Musto Copy Share Image
