Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Martin Rees

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

Mark Twain

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people incon...

David Suzuki

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Lynn Margulis

He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Noam Chomsky

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gaylord Nelson

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

George Gaylord Simpson

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Sylvia Earle

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Gordon W. Allport

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Douglas Coupland

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

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

David Kitts

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

Gene Simmons

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

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?

Vinita Kinra

Human affinity to human weakness surpasses human affinity to human strength

Prabhukrishna M

There is an end of human life but there is no end of human love for humanity.

Debasish Mridha

The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes thirty, sometimes more than a hundred times. Your destiny, your sanity and your life hang by the thre...

Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters