Species Quotes

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.

The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.

He who pretends to look on death without fear lies. All men are afraid of dying, this is the great law of sentient beings, without which the entire human species would soon be destroyed.

There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

We say Fine, even though we may be dying, and this is commonly known as taking one's courage in both hands, a phenomenon that has only been observed in the human species.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

In nature we find not only that which is expedient, but also everything which is not so inexpedient as to endanger the existence of the species.

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

The idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men of science in the early modern period.

I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

If only someone would do for cows what Bambi did for deer. Cows have been in films, but they haven't starred. I'm still willing to eat a species that is only a supporting player.

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy.

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry.

The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any other species.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming.

We're going to bake this planet, and be a curse to all species, including our own, if we don't find an alternative to carbon-based fuel. That's the #1 problem.

We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Countless the various species of mankind, Countless the shades which sep'rate mind from mind; No general object of desire is known, Each has his will, and each pursues his own.

Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses

Food culture in the United States has long been cast as the property of a privileged class. It is nothing of the kind. Culture is the property of a species.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.

For over 30 years the Endangered Species Act has suffered from many fundamental flaws, the most notable being a blatant disregard for property rights,.

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species.

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

I not only believe, I believe that there are many different species of ships, there are many different species of extraterrestrials, and not all of them are up to good.

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

Without argument the species would parish.

Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species? Or, are we destined to become something different - something, perhaps, even better adapted to the environment?

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.