Extinction Quotes

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

One in eight plant species face extinction.

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

In the long term, it is desirable that the human race, faced with the prospect of extinction on Earth, should prepare an escape route for itself to another inhabitable planet.

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the shape of extinction, whether he recognizes it as such or not.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.

I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.

EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription for liberal extinction.

Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no sacrifices would be required - we could party our way into extinction!

Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social behaviors that will avoid extinction.

I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to diminish its powers and prerogatives.

Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

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

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

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?

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't working very well!

I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.