Species Quotes

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. (Charles Darwin)
There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. View quote
Evelyn Waugh
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. View quote
George Carlin
Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. View quote
Thomas Paine
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. View quote
Joyce Carol Oates
Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. View quote
Henry Fielding
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. View quote
Charles Lamb
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. View quote
Carl Sagan
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. (H. G. Wells)
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally and more plausibly, the serious economic and social dangers inherent in disarmament, but the simple fact that no substitute for this final arbiter in international affairs has yet appeared on the political scene. View quote
Hannah Arendt
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. View quote
Martin Luther
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. View quote
Frank Auerbach
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. View quote
George Jean Nathan
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the work of biologists studying non-human species. (J. Philippe Rushton)
The attainments of the parent do not descend in the blood of his children, nor is the progress of man to be considered as a physical mutation of the species. View quote
Adam Ferguson
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. View quote
David Attenborough
Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? View quote
Jane Goodall
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity is not taboo suggests that the capacity of an individual to respond erotically to any sort of stimulus, whether it is provided by another person of the same or opposite sex, is basic in the species. View quote
Alfred Kinsey