quotes about Species
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The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
-- Antoinette Brown Blackwell -
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.
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Living in your genome is the history of our species.
-- Barry SchulerSource : "Genomics 101". Taste3 Talk, www.ted.com. June 30, 2008.
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What happens to other species also happens to us.
-- Bill NyeSource : Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press
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As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
-- Bruce Chatwin -
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
-- C. S. Lewis -
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If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.
-- Catherine Breillat -
As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge.
-- Chaim Potok -
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
-- Charles Darwin -
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
-- Charles Darwin -
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A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.
-- Charles Darwin -
I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.
-- Charles Darwin -
Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing.
-- Charles Lamb -
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Islands are where species go to die.
-- David QuammenSource : "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions". Book by David Quammen, 1996.
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I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
-- David S. Goyer -
We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.
-- David Whyte -
We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.
-- Dennis Weaver -
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I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion
-- Dorothea Dix -
A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.
-- Eckhart Tolle -
I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate
-- Ernst Mayr -
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It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
-- Frank AuerbachSource : Frank Auerbach, Hayward Gallery, Fruit Market Gallery, Arts Council of Great Britain (1978). “Frank Auerbach: catalogue of an exhibtion held at the Hayward Gallery, London, 4 May - 2 July 1978, Fruit Market Gallery, Edinburgh, 15 July 12 August, 1978”
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I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
-- Gary LarsonSource : "The Far Side of Retirement". Interview with Jake Morrissey, articles.latimes.com. October 7, 1996.
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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
-- Hugh Lofting -
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All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
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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.
-- Konrad Lorenz -
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.
-- Lawrence M. Krauss -
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I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species.
-- Leonard MichaelsSource : Leonard Michaels (1992). “Sylvia: A Fictional Memoir”
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It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.
-- Lois Crisler -
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
-- Lynn Margulis -
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Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.
-- Max Stirner -
We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
-- Norm Dicks -
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
-- P. T. Barnum -
The facts of microevolution [change within the species] do not suffice for an understanding of macroevolution [theorized change from one species to another].
-- Richard Goldschmidt -
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If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable.
-- Richard Koch -
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
-- Robert FortuneSource : Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press
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When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
-- Timothy Zahn -
I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
-- Wilbur Smith -
Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
-- William Godwin -
How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
-- William McDonough -
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We're the only species that listens to Michael Bublé when we have sex. That's gotta be wrong.
-- Chris D'Elia -
No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.
-- Edward'O -
Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?
-- Amber Rose -