Species Quotes

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

The formation of different languages and of distinct species and the proofs that both have been developed through a gradual process, are curiously parallel.

Endangered species are our friends.

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and meme machines as well.

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.

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.

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Never feel guilty. Don't hold yourself back by guilt or fear. No other species in the entire world deals with guilt. Guilt is a bizarre emotion that makes you feel bad about decisions that you make.

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will significantly increase the richness and scope of the human experience.

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

...human beings are a species splendid in their array of moral equipment, tragic in their propensity to misuse it, and pathetic in their ignorance of the misuse.

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now?

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations.

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals.

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species needs most of all, right now, is simply a future.

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

The law of nature instructs most animals to cherish and educate their infant progeny. The law of reason inculcates to the human species the returns of filial piety.

... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.

Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hives.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.

This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity - a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy.

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted.

We develop our beautiful planet in such a way that we brush aside the species... we risk creating a wasteland, where our aspirations will ultimately wither and die

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species.

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.

A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.