Species Quotes

We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining sane and following our biological imperative to continue as a species.

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative, even with strangers, people who are not at all related to us.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.

Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species.

We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a way through here that won't lead to utter calamity.

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.

Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

Every physical quality admired by men in women is in direct connection with the manifold functions of women for the propagation of the species.

The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.

Avisitor from Mars contemplating a man in a frock coat and top hat and a woman in a crinoline might well have supposed that they belonged to different species.

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.

Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that, and preserve and cultivate its identity.

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

Cities are the abyss of the human species.

God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.

The decisive step in evolution, the first step toward macroevolution, the step from one species to another, requires another evolutionary method than that of sheer accumulation of micromutations.

The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

We are a species that has lost its way. Everything natural, every flower or tree, and every animal have important lessons to teach us if we would only stop, look, and listen.

It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.

As I like to say, the entire collective memory of the species - that means all known and recorded information - is going to be just a few keystrokes away in a matter of years.

We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.

I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.

It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.

The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.