Species Quotes

• We need to emphasize the more positive aspects of our species.

  

  Everett McGill
  • Positive
  • Need
  • Emphasize

• Physically, men are of the same species; spiritually each is a species apart.

  

  George Tyrrell
  • Species
  • Physically
  • Spiritually

• Mathematical objects are determined by - and understood by - the network of relationships they enjoy with all the other objects of their species.

  

  Barry Mazur
  • Enjoy
  • Relationships
  • Determined

• Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are deliberate ecodeath. Yet, tree planting is often pictorially advertised on television and in national magazines by focusing on cupped caring hands around a seedling. But forests do not need this godlike interference... Planting tree plantations is permanent deforestation... The extensive planting of just one exotic species removes thousands of native species.

  

  Bernd Heinrich
  • Television
  • Trees
  • Spraying

• The email of the species is deadlier than the mail.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Species
  • Mail

• There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Exist
  • Species

• The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level of the geographical race, but the origin of genetic segregation. The test of species-formation is whether, when two forms meet, they interbreed and merge, or whether they keep distinct.

  

  David Lack
  • Science
  • Differences
  • Appearance

• Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Spiritual
  • Cancer

• Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

  

  Elliott Sober
  • Influence
  • Evolution
  • Selection

• If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Thinking
  • Lawyer
  • Lines

• Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Species
  • Habitats

• If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species.

  

  Catherine Breillat
  • Humans
  • Virginity
  • Abstinence

• Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Happiness
  • Condition
  • Species

• There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

  

  George Schaller
  • Back
  • Turn
  • Victories

• Ignorance produced genera, and science produced, and will continue to produce, proper names; nor of these shall we be afraid to increase the number, whenever we shall have occasion to denote different species.

  

  Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
  • Ignorance
  • Produce
  • Species

• Understand now what lying is. Any species of designed deception. If the deception is not designed it is not lying. But if you design to make an impression contrary to the naked truth, you lie.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Design
  • Lying
  • Impression

• Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage. The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

  

  Eric Pianka
  • Technology
  • Environmental
  • Damage

• The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species. Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Anger
  • Species
  • Discrimination

• Humans are the one species the world could do very well without.

  

  George Schaller
  • Humans
  • Without
  • Species

• Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

  

  Neil Shubin
  • Species
  • Lived
  • Extinct

• Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Human
  • Hiroshima
  • Remarkably

• Two forms or species are sympatric, if they occur together, that is if their areas of distribution overlap or coincide. Two forms (or species) are allapatric, if they do not occur together, that is if they exclude each other geographically. The term allopatric is primarily useful in denoting geographic representatives.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • Representatives
  • Coincide
  • Geographical

• That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

  

  Richard Owen
  • Individual
  • Certain
  • Constant

• I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.

  

  Keith Devlin
  • Believe
  • Mathematics
  • Species

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