Species Quotes - page 42

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. (E. O. Wilson)
It's the old idea that the process of evolution is some push in the direction of greater complexity--in particular greater intellectual complexity. In one twig of the tree of life, namely ours, having a big brain happened to have advantages. But that's just what worked for a particular species of primate 5 to 7 million years ago. View quote
Steven Pinker
Of all the species of literary composition, perhaps biography is the most delightful. The attention concentrated on one individual gives a unity to the materials of which it is composed, which is wanting in general history. View quote
Robert Hall
He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species. View quote
P. T. Barnum
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize? View quote
Buzz Aldrin
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species. View quote
Buzz Aldrin
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. View quote
George Washington
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species. View quote
George Washington
I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing. View quote
Natasha Lyonne
Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create... Neo-Darwinists say that new species emerge when mutations occur and modify an organism. I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change [which] led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. (Lynn Margulis)
Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous. View quote
Lynn Margulis
I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence. View quote
Lynn Margulis
The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. View quote
Lynn Margulis
The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years. View quote
Lynn Margulis
New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. View quote
Lynn Margulis
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat ... but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification. View quote
Anita Brookner
We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.' View quote
Karl Pilkington
We are a naturally hierarchical species. View quote
Octavia Butler
Science fiction, outside of poetry, is the only literary field which has no limits, no parameters whatsoever. You can go not only into the future, but into that wonderful place called "other", which is simply another universe, another planet, another species. View quote
Theodore Sturgeon
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly I think, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species. (Andrea Dworkin)
What the job really boils down to is this - the fullest realization of man's possibilities, whether by the individual, by the community, or by the species in its processional adventure along the corridors of time. View quote
Julian Huxley
We shall start from new premises. ... The human species can, if it wishes, transcend itself - not just sporadically, an individual here in one way, an individual there in another way, but in its entirety, as humanity. View quote
Julian Huxley
Films of the mating behavior of most other species - a staple of public television of America - demonstrate that the female chooses. View quote
Camille Paglia
Intimacy-real honest intimacy-is one of the most radical things you can do right now. It's like an endangered species to connect to your feelings and actually be present... View quote
Liz Phair