Species Quotes

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women belonging to the human race.

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us.

The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient.

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous.

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands.

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.

Man has risen so far above all other species that he competes in ways unique in nature. He fights by means of complicated weapons; he fights for ends remote in time.

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

Probably there was a beginning-it is a metaphysical question, worthy a theologian-species have begun and ended-but the analogy is faint and distant.

Now that we're essentially an indoor species, walled off from the world of other life forms, we're divorced from the very domain that supports and sustains our lives.

He was onto something. Something huge. It wasn't just how to run; it was how to live, the essence of who we are as a species and what we're meant to be.

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor.

The world was not made for any one species.

This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight of a phone book. The pain is not great, but the symbolism is disagreeable.

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more.

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level.

Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.

Islands are where species go to die.

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture. Perhaps even as a species.

In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Choice is a signature of our species.

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species

Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted entity that shares the land with us.

What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake.

If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least human civilization can survive, for another hundred years.

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.