Species Quotes

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are interdependent.

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.

Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not a member of our own species.

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism.

Nature can't evolve a species that hasn't the will to survive. Individuals might be bred to sacrifice themselves, but the race as a whole can never cease to exist.

Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites.

If a child never sees the stars, never has meaningful encounters with other species, never experiences the richness of nature, what happens to that child?

Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he pretends to be. The female wants to be overvalued for what she truly is.

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense. Fear is the father of lies.

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it

Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.

The sea in all its vastness is its own, real world. Man is nature's sci-fi.

Strangers are an endangered species.

The individual appears for an instant, joins the community of thought, modifies it and dies; but the species, that dies not, reaps the fruit of his ephemeral existence.

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality

We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a species must be saved in many places if it is to be saved at all.

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched.

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

WEAKNESSES, n.pl. Certain primal powers of Tyrant Woman wherewith she holds dominion over the male of her species, binding him to the service of her will and paralyzing his rebellious energies.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

My friends come from many species.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.

Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.

It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

Many social practices essential to the welfare of the species involve the control of one person by another, and no one can suppress them who has any concern for human achievements

If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn't give a damn.

Living in your genome is the history of our species.

You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.