quotes about Mammals
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How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense.
-- Andy WeirSource : Andy Weir (2014). “The Martian”, p.64, Random House
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
-- Barbara Kingsolver -
The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.
-- Carl Jung -
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Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.
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For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion.
-- Christopher McDougall -
‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.
-- David Attenborough -
We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it?
-- David Brin -
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Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.
-- David Suzuki -
If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.
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I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough to make it a sort of adventure and exploration to see what they were doing.
-- Donald GriffinSource : Donald Redfield Griffin (1959). “Science Study Series”
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Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.
-- Elaine MorganSource : Elaine Morgan (2011). “The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis”, p.69, Souvenir Press
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Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate.
-- Ellsworth HuntingtonSource : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.6, VM eBooks
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The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen... The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.
-- Gary LarsonSource : Gary Larson (1989). “The PreHistory of the Far side: a 10th anniversary exhibit”, Andrews McMeel Publishing
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Man need not be degraded to a machine by being denied to be a ghost in a machine. He might, after all, be a sort of animal, namely, a higher mammal. There has yet to be ventured the hazardous leap to the hypothesis that perhaps he is a man.
-- Gilbert RyleSource : Gilbert Ryle (2015). “The Concept of Mind”, p.340, Lulu Press, Inc
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The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.
-- Ina May Gaskin -
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Why were there far more species of domesticated animals in Eurasia than in the Americas? The Americas harbor over a thousand native wild mammal species, so you might initially suppose that the Americas offered plenty of starting material for domestication.
-- Jared Diamond -
There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal.
-- Jim Morrison -
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.
-- Jock Sturges -
I am really a sea creature. Just a mammal that lost its fins.
-- Kathleen QuinlanSource : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.
-- Kiersten White -
Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves.
-- Lynne Truss -
Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.
-- Michael Shermer -
We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth.
-- Nathan Wolfe -
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Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
-- Patricia MarxSource : "Gifts for Him" by Patricia Marx, www.newyorker.com. November 26, 2007.
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Dolphins are social mammals, capable of enjoying their lives. They form close bonds with other members of their group.
-- Peter Singer -
To me it seems that the warm blooded dinosaurs replaced advanced mammal ancestors that were warm blooded, also.
-- Robert T. Bakker -
If you found a mammal with feathers, then you'd know that Darwin was wrong. Well, it's rather the same with memes.
-- Susan Blackmore -
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
-- Walter Gilbert -
Dogs are the only mammals that will actually stare and look into a human’s eyes.
-- Jerry O'Connell -
Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.
-- Carl ZimmerSource : Source: bigthink.com