Species Quotes - page 36

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world. (John E. Walker)
Theatre people, who are an adaptive species, know that to remain sane in the process of production where everyone and his uncle has an opinion about how to fix a show, you must pick the people whose knowledge and taste you trust and stick only to these few. The Tweetocracy is no place to look. View quote
John Lahr
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day. View quote
Jon Fishman
Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves. View quote
Jon Wynne-Tyson
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species. View quote
Juan Enriquez
What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite. View quote
Louise Leakey
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. View quote
Laura Wade
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. View quote
Lee Trevino
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. View quote
Mariella Frostrup
It's fair to say when you go out and walk in the woods or on a beach, the most conspicuous forms of life you will see are plants and animals, and certainly there's a huge diversity of those types of organisms, perhaps 10 million animal species and several hundred thousand plant species. View quote
Andrew H. Knoll
Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me. (Corneille Ewango)
I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. View quote
George Bentham
Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans. View quote
Ian Goldin
Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time. View quote
Jane Poynter
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. View quote
John Tyler Bonner
It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about. View quote
Meshell Ndegeocello
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year. View quote
Michael Smith
My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. View quote
Peter Diamandis
Thus the genetic basis to the origin of bird species is to be sought in the inheritance of adult traits that are subject to natural and sexual selection. View quote
Peter R. Grant
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature. View quote
Paul Berg
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration. (Paul Stamets)
Survival," I said softly. "It's selfish, and it's dark, and we've always been a species willing to do anything to satisfy our needs. Individuals have morals. Mobs have appetites. View quote
Rachel Caine
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the laboratory. We could do this in animals increasingly... this was the way to go in the human species. View quote
Robert Edwards
The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve. View quote
Ron Howard
I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we as a species are scratching that itch we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. That's the philosophical side. View quote
Ron Howard