375 Species Quotes for You to Enjoy

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via natural selection, but by design. Martin Rees

Time Travel Natural Space Problems Design Stars Our Earth Enterprise Evolved Selection Lifetime Escape Offer Via Human Transit Fuel Natural Selection View Therefore Even Species Nearby Nuclear

In human history, we are going from knowledge to omniscience, from potence to omnipotence, from ethics and religion to righteousness. So, in my view, God comes at the end of this long process. This may not happen in our lifetimes or even in the lifetime of our species. Martin Seligman

For the first time in evolution as a species, we're hitting an energy ceiling. Matt Bellamy

Time First Energy Evolution First Time Ceiling Hitting Species

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is. Max Heindel

Man Plants Animals Sense Minerals Divided Individual Same Species

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species. Melvin Maddocks

Sports Too Pedigree Both Environment Observing Indoors Lights Like Dogs Controlled Show Baseball Species Watching Suit

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about. Meshell Ndegeocello

You Black Dust Gone Carefully About Seems Fades Obsess Like Concept Limiting End Very Just Us Choose Species

The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. Michael Dickinson

Success Great Rain Every Incredibly Hundreds Evolved Except Tropical Long-Distance Great Success Within Continent Antarctica Mating Exotic Forests Behaviors Stories Capable Success Stories Flights Many Deserts Species

What people don't always understand is that I established a certain lifestyle for my family back in the days of 'Species' and 'Mulholland Falls' and 'The Getaway.' I wasn't about to move my six kids into a trailer park. So when people offered me work, it wasn't always the best, but I had to buy groceries, and I had to put gas in the car. Michael Madsen

Work Buy Best Family Me People Car Back Kids About Park Lifestyle Had Put Days Understand Always Falls Trailer Trailer Park Offered Move Six Established Groceries Certain Species Gas

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self-importance. You suddenly realize that consciousness - which we value and we consider the crowning achievement of nature, human consciousness - is really just another set of tools for getting along in the world. Michael Pollan

Nature You Achievement World Value Looking Other Consider Tools Crowning Points Along Another Self-Importance Cure Disease Getting Human Just Human Consciousness Which Realize Really View Suddenly Species Consciousness Set

We are the species who cooks. No other species cooks. And when we learned to cook, we became truly human. Michael Pollan

Other Learned Became Truly Human Cook Who Cooks Species

Species co-evolve with the other species they eat, and very often, a relationship of interdependence develops: I'll feed you if you spread around my genes. A gradual process of mutual adaptation transforms something like an apple or a squash into a nutritious and tasty food for a hungry animal. Michael Pollan

Food Relationship You Animal Other Hungry Eat Mutual Something Feed Develops Genes Like Around Spread Very Squash Gradual Tasty Often Process Interdependence Species Apple Adaptation

As a social primate species, we modulate our morals with signals from family, friends and social groups with whom we identify because in our evolutionary past, those attributes helped individuals to survive and reproduce. Michael Shermer

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year. Michael Smith

Year Other Destroyed Destroying Per About Rate Over Majority Years Exist Years Ago North North America America Just Planet Sapiens Large Now Species Homo Homo Sapiens

The unpredictability of the weather, the increasing possibility of intelligence introducing a species more powerful than ours, the growing uncertainty that animals can or should be slaughtered for our pleasure, has led many of us to start asking more complex questions about what is and isn't normal. Michaela Coel

Intelligence Weather Animals Increasing Our Pleasure Complex Ours Possibility Introducing Unpredictability About More Uncertainty Powerful Led Normal Questions Than Us Asking Should Many Growing Species Start Slaughtered

I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing. Natasha Lyonne

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. Nathan Wolfe

Try Think No Choice Forecast Choice Species

It is the great sadness of our species that we have not found a way to eliminate the conflict and to eliminate violence as a device to resolve our conflicts throughout the entire history of the human race. Neale Donald Walsch

Great History Conflict Sadness Resolve Our Way Entire Throughout Device Human Conflicts Race Human Race Found Species Eliminate Violence

I don't get on with novelists, don't enjoy their company. Once you've worked for a publisher, you understand the species, see them in their natural habitat, and it's not always pretty. Neil Cross

You Natural Habitat Enjoy Once See Pretty Understand Always Get Them Worked Company Novelists Species Publisher

We should find inspiration in the senses that already exist and try to copy them and apply them to us. If we compare our senses to the senses of other animals and species that we don't have, we can get ideas for new abilities that we can adapt to humans by applying cybernetics to the body. Neil Harbisson

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

Day Survival Space Our Hundred Earth Hundred Years Ensuring Thousand Some Beyond Years Move Happens Whether Species Start

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion. Nicholas A. Christakis

Life Fashion Benefits Our Ourselves Costs Networks Advantage Individuals Outweigh Because Form Reason Connected Assemble Species

The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself. Pat Conroy

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