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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
View quotes by Charles Darwin

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case. [A Theory of Justice]
View quotes by John Rawls

I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
View quotes by Maya Angelou

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
View quotes by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

View quotes by Adlai Stevenson

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.
View quotes by John Gardner

There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.
View quotes by Desmond Morris

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
View quotes by Desmond Morris

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

View quotes by George Jean Nathan

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
View quotes by Adlai E Stevenson

To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they find themselves in a congenial culture, and whose activity diminishes until they disappear completely as soon as proper measures are taken to sterilize them.
View quotes by Aleister Crowley

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

View quotes by Bill Cosby

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
View quotes by H G Wells

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history.
View quotes by Stephen Jay Gould

They made love as though they were an endangered species.
View quotes by Peter De Vries

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government
View quotes by Washington Irving

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use
View quotes by Arthur Koestler

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species
View quotes by Konrad Lorenz

Science is the most exciting and sustained enterprise of discovery in the history of our species. It is the great adventure of our time. We live today in an era of discovery that far outshadows the discoveries of the New World five hundred years ago.
View quotes by Michael Crichton



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