Harry Kroto Quotes

Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

Harry Kroto

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• Human Beings
• Catastrophe
• Source Of Energy

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• Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

  

  Gary L. Francione
  • Animals
  • Property
  • Torture

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Perfect
  • Animals
  • Vanity

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Children
  • Feeling
  • Wanted

• I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Animals
  • Guns

• When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Think
  • Sad
  • Animals

• I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Animals
  • Trees
  • Neighbours

• Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Why
  • Words
  • Expression

• The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Great
  • Greatness
  • Animals

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Write
  • Human Beings
  • Impulse

• It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Want
  • Kind
  • Years

• Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • People
  • Work
  • Mind

• There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • World
  • Great
  • Today

• I was aware of what animals go through because I had driven animals to slaughter and I'd killed animals. And I was aware that there were certain ethical issues, but they weren't preying on my mind very heavily.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Mind
  • Animals
  • Issues

• Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • People
  • Lost
  • Health

• For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal.

  

  Aristotle
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Animals

• Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Teach
  • Animals
  • Advantage

• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
  • World
  • Truth
  • Always

• Our interpretations reveal less about God or the Bible than they do about ourselves. They reveal what we want to defend, what we want to attack, what we want to ignore, what we’re unwilling to question.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • God
  • Question
  • Bible

• Something new will always be the source of growth in Silicon Valley.

  

  Steve Jurvetson
  • Growth
  • Source

• Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.

  

  Harry Kroto
  • Animals
  • Human Beings
  • Catastrophe