Quotes Tagged "species"

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

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

Mind you, O Mighty Soldier, you are the guardian of humanity's destiny - you are the shield and the sword of our species in the road ahead.

We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our species the most, and to accept that all of our doctrines and beliefs may just be incomplete. That we don’t know it all and that perhaps we never will. That others like us may have something to teach us, and we may have something to contribute to their communities. That communities, types of people, are divisions we’ve created for ourselves. That for all of what we know, the knowledge and wisdom that we have gathered in the few millennia may be a small fraction of what is there to be discovered, understood and applied.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy among hundreds of billions of galaxies, all of which are in one universe among perhaps an infinite number of universes all nestled within a grand cosmic multiverse, is provincially insular and anthropocentrically blinkered. Which is more likely? That the universe was designed just for us, or that we see the universe as having been designed just for us?

Unfortunately, researches are only peripherally interested in the thousands of species discovered so far and given unpronounceable Latin names. Countless more species are waiting in vain to be discovered.

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Endangered species are our friends.

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

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

We're a very imaginative species; we're very good at creating fictions.

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

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

We are a very, very unusual species.

Eat a wide variety of species.