Species Quotes
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One of the many unintended consequences of the Anthropocene has been the pruning of our own family tree. Having cut down our sister species—the Neanderthals and the Denisovans—many generations ago, we’re now working on our first and second cousins. By the time we’re done, it’s quite possible that there will be among the great apes not a single representative left, except, that is, for us.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.
Antonio Damasio
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
William Godwin
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Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep.
Walker Percy
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Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Techniques such as genetic engineering, psychoactive drugs and electronic control of the brain make possible a transformation of the species into docile, fully-obedient, 'safe' organisms.
William Sims
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Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.
Enrique Penalosa
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
George Bernard Shaw
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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
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Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
Harrison Ford