Species Quotes - page 46

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. (António Damásio)
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species. View quote
António Damásio
There are three levels of self to consider: the proto, the core, and the autobiographical. The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species. View quote
António Damásio
The global destiny of the species is somehow unfolding with the logic of a dream. View quote
Terence McKenna
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. View quote
John Steinbeck
Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in music, in art, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. View quote
John Steinbeck
One fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume itself. Yes, the Devil shall take the hindmost until the foremost is the hindmost. In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. View quote
David Mitchell (author)
By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history. Our science and our technology have posed us a profound question. Will we learn to use these tools with wisdom and foresight before it's too late? View quote
Carl Sagan
What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities. View quote
Carl Sagan
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from all our history. And they're patient. View quote
Carl Sagan
What distinguishes our species is thought. (Carl Sagan)
In a cosmic perspective, most human concerns seem insignificant, even petty. And yet our species is young and curious and brave and shows much promise. View quote
Carl Sagan
We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring. View quote
Carl Sagan
A soldier is a "Yahoo" hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own Species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. View quote
Jonathan Swift
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't. View quote
James Cameron (director)
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. View quote
J. M. Coetzee
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. View quote
Greg Graffin
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace. View quote
Salman Rushdie
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have a chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. View quote
Richard Dawkins
... it is certainly wrong to condemn poor old Homo Sapiens as the only species to kill his own kind, the only inheritor of the mark of Cain, and similar melodramatic charges. View quote
Richard Dawkins
We are a very, very unusual species. (Richard Dawkins)
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. View quote
Richard Dawkins
All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. View quote
John W. Gardner
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but rather the one most adaptable to change. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Our species will end but the light of God will not end and at that point it will invade all souls and it will all be in everyone. View quote
Pope Francis