Species Quotes

• Cities are the abyss of the human species.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Humans
  • Cities
  • Abyss

• The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Giant
  • Niagara

• In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of the species when she senses a threat to her cubs. The lioness, the tigress and the mama bear are all examples.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Behavior
  • Fierce
  • Characteristic

• We are a naturally hierarchical species.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Species
  • Naturally

• I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • Country
  • Worrier

• The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.

  

  Plutarch
  • Creatures
  • Issue
  • Obligations

• A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Asking
  • Species
  • Definition

• A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Race
  • Species
  • Variety

• I'm very pessimistic about the future of the human species. We have been so indifferent to life on the whole that it will take its toll. It's not just the polar bears that are having a hard time; what we're doing is gradually impoverishing and poisoning the whole of the rest of life.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Time
  • Future

• Endangered species are our friends.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Friends
  • Species
  • Endangered

• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  

  Chris Martin Coldplay
  • Good
  • Horse
  • Album

• Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Life
  • Life is
  • Bullying

• I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.

  

  Emperor Hirohito
  • Tears
  • Japanese
  • Efforts

• When I am at a dinner table, I love to ask everybody, 'How long do you think our species might last?' I've read that the average age of a species, of any species, is about two million years. Is it possible we can have an average life span as a species? And do you picture us two million years more or a million and a half years, or 5,000?

  

  Alan Alda
  • Life
  • Long
  • Age

• But science does correct itself and that's the reason why science is such a glorious thing for our species.

  

  Nigel Calder
  • Science
  • Species
  • Glorious

• There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'... The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Up
  • Part
  • Structure

• We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made a mistake' - it's too late. This is the world we live with.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Mind

• Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • Needs
  • Humans
  • Species

• Like species, couples die out or evolve.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Die
  • Species
  • Evolve

• The most effective way to save endangered species is to protect the places they need to live.

  

  Lois Capps
  • Live
  • Way
  • Species

• On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera for serum proteins does not succeed so regularly as with agglutinins and lysins for blood cells. This may be due to the fact that in the evolutional scale the proteins undergo continuous variations whereas cell antigens are subject to sudden changes not linked by intermediary stages.

  

  Karl Landsteiner
  • May
  • Experience
  • Author

• The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Desire
  • Create
  • Exist

• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Sleep
  • Blessing
  • Prosperity

• We think only through the medium of words. Languages are true analytical methods. Algebra, which is adapted to its purpose in every species of expression, in the most simple, most exact, and best manner possible, is at the same time a language and an analytical method. The art of reasoning is nothing more than a language well arranged.

  

  Antoine Lavoisier
  • Time
  • Art
  • True

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