Biology Quote by Richard Lewontin

It's funny but when young people say to me "what can I study to be a force for change, should I study law or…

— Paul Watson

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

— Betty White

“Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of species before…

— Mark Carwardine

“An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone’s hand, and…

— Nicole Krauss

“It is possibly true that intelligent life with a sophisticated technology is needed for the eventual survival of life. Dinosaurs and many other species…

— Jamal Nazrul Islam

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

— Christopher Cokinos

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of…

— Louise Leakey

'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate…

— Adela Popescu

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

— Anonymous

“By the time Lyall set foot on the shores of Stephens Island, almost a third of New Zealand’s unique species were already extinct due…

— Peter P. Marra

Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but…

— Nicole Krauss

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

— Kevin Kelly