Species's Quotes

We're an adaptable species," she said, refusing to be stopped, "but it's wrong to inflict suffering just because your victim can endure it." "Learn — Octavia E. Butler

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something. — Terry Pratchett

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. — Mark Lynas

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Jeff McNeely

Not the stars, not the farthest solar systems, not the millions of different species of animal life, but the child is the greatest of God's creations. — Michael Jackson

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. — Paul Watson

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. — Alfred Marshall

Sodomy is as old as the human species. — William S. Burroughs

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. — Sara Bonnett Stein

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up. — Pharrell Williams

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. — Penelope Gilliatt

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere. — E. O. Wilson

Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well. — Alfred Hershey

Besides, take away self-interest and you condemn the species to extinction, that's my motto! — X

It's animal by animal that you save a species. — Diane Ackerman

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species. — Richard Goldschmidt

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas

Story of our species," Malcolm said, laughing. "Everybody knows it's coming, but not so soon. — Michael Crichton

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand ... — Nicole Krauss

This world is not conclusion.
A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson

A species's cognition is generally as good as what it needs for its survival. — Frans De Waal

What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality. — Alex Sanchez

No, no, you twit, move towards the well-hung male of the species! It's only natural; you don't want to insult Mother Nature. Go claim your mate. — Jenna McCormick

We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn. — Steven Soderbergh

He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species
sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain. — Clifford D. Simak

I mean, like I needed the stress of a fight with slutty Ms. Thinking-She's-All-That added on top of a life/species/school change? — P.C. Cast

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. — Virginia Woolf

narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time. — H. Porter Abbott

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. — Mahatma Gandhi

Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand. — Neil Turok

The sexes in each species of being ... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. — Antoinette Brown Blackwell

The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee. — John Scalzi

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice. — Erwin Schrodinger

For great many species today, "fitness" means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force. — Michael Pollan

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. — C.S. Lewis

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom. — Salman Rushdie

It's the doom of our species that psychopaths always want to be in charge. — Linda Nagata

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. — Lois Crisler

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species. — Adolf Hitler

I never liked my own species. — Gary Larson

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace. — Salman Rushdie

We humans, as a species, are pretty fucked up. It's — Linnea May

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species. — Oliver Sacks

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. — Jeffrey Kluger

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. — Robin Morgan

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another. — Juan Enriquez

There's nothing like millions of years of really frustrating trial and error to give a species moral fibre — Terry Pratchett

It's funny how many ways there are to hurt people. As many ways to hurt as there are species of flower. Whole bouquets of hurt. — Joshua Gaylord

Panty Melter: an exceedingly rare species of man blessed with so many desirable attributes he effortlessly gains access into a girl's panties. — Tracy Brogan

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause — Richard Leakey

You're hurt, she commented. And I care? Okay. It's official. I'm my own species now: pathetic-deathwish-osaurus ... I sooo hear extinction calling me. — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience. — Zoltan Istvan

He's like the most dangerous species of American there is: heterosexual white male who didn't get what he wanted. — Nathan Hill

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S. — Nancy Gibbs

Report in The Economist as much as 97 per cent of the world's plant and animal species may still await discovery. Of — Bill Bryson

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil

Only after you've done the exorcism, then
you'll understand that ghost's also a species. — Toba Beta

Revolutions produce other men, not new men. Halfway between truth and endless error, the mold of the species is permanent. That is Earth's burden. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We are not defined by our species any more than our nationality or our gender. What we do , our choices, that's what defines us. — Carrie Jones

Girls always think, "I'm going to be the exception," Caroline thought; it's a weakness of the species, like a collie's tiny brain. — Rona Jaffe

Dachux: It's not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions. — C.D. Sutherland

Ethology's focus was on behavior that develops naturally in all members of a given species. — Frans De Waal

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species. — Henry James

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. — Arianna Huffington

Selective memory is surely one of nature's most effective ways of ensuring the survival of our species. — Nigel Hamilton

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. — Jaron Lanier

From a ball of mud taken from a birds plumage, Charles Darwin raised 82 separate plants, belonging to five distinct species! — Rachel Carson

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. — Tony Attwood

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities. — Daniel Suarez

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

There really is, for humankind there's really no such thing as race. There's different tribes but not different races. We're all one species. — Bill Nye The Science Guy

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. — Cesar Millan

Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth. — Will Cuppy

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. — Craig Ferguson

It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to s different species. — William Hazlitt

As with any young species, this one's position is precarious. — Elizabeth Kolbert

Story of our species ... everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon. — Michael Crichton

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

Storytelling is in our DNA. It's what differentiates humans from other species: we don't just communicate information. We tell stories. — Gabriela Pereira

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. — Charles Lindbergh

I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species. — Christopher Hampton

Human beings are not nature's favorites. We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. — Camille Paglia

Mom," Holden said. "Earthers and Belters can have kids just fine. We're not a different species. — James S.A. Corey

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee. — Christopher Hitchens

Life is a fight, but not everyone's a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. — Andrew Vachss

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. — Sydney J. Harris

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever. — Mark Shand

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

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. — John B. S. Haldane

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs — C.S. Lewis

Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet! — Ana Claudia Antunes

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.' — David S.Goyer

There's just no accounting for evil and meanness, and we can't judge a species by a few bad apples. — Alyssa Day

It's not about fucking," she asserted as we clucked nervously over her diagram. "It's about our species. We need to breed. — Andrew Miller

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. — George Carlin

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO ... but the species is rare. — Warren Buffett

It's in our genetics. It's why women are the master species. We give birth and we can walk in heels. — Jaci Burton