375 Species Quotes for You to Enjoy

All the things that made us basically nasty, rapacious, competitive as a species are not necessarily hard-coded into whatever passes for the DNA of artificial intelligence. Robert J. Sawyer

Artificial Intelligence Intelligence Made Whatever Passes Nasty Artificial Us Species Things Necessarily Basically Competitive

I want to know diverse facts about such things as galaxies or molecules or proteins or insect species. I have an impulse to want to know the little details, which are usually of no significance to non-specialists. I own a dissection microscope, and if there is an insect in the house, I sometimes catch it and look at it under the microscope. Robert J. Shiller

Sometimes Own Significance Insect Details About Diverse Facts Catch Know Look House Proteins Microscope Impulse Want Which Little Galaxies Molecules Such Things Species Things

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. Robert T. Bakker

Everywhere Spreading Were Diseases Land Many Bridges Species Extinction

I think it's in our nature to try to get beyond that next horizon. I think that when we, as a species, are scratching that itch, we're actually following an evolutionary compulsion that is wired into us. I think good things come of it. Ron Howard

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve. Ron Howard

Stronger Become Evolve Sooner Safer Continue Going Species Guarantee

Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound. And a North Atlantic right whale can transmit across hundreds of miles. Rose George

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By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part. Rusty Schweickart

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As soon as a handful of scientists come up with an intervention shown to influence aging in other species, they begin selling it as an intervention for humans, even though there may not be evidence it works. S. Jay Olshansky

Other Intervention Evidence Though Soon Come Scientists Handful Up Selling Begin May Influence Aging Works Shown Even Species Humans

Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that. Sandi Toksvig

Love Girl Goodness Boy Yes Oh Different Them Species Raising

After an afternoon of interviewing Siri it turns out there are millions of questions that it can't or won't answer: How did you get my phone number? How many Siris are there? Did you have a Christmas party? Who is playing the tiny xylophone before and after each interaction? Are you spying on us, plotting the downfall of our species? Sara Pascoe

Christmas You Phone Party Before Interviewing Our Phone Number Out Plotting Answer How Questions Spying Get Did Tiny Interaction After Afternoon Us Turns Who Downfall Many Each Species Millions Playing Number

We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more stupid, not smarter. What made us survive all these hundreds of thousands of years is our spirituality; the link to our land. Sebastiao Salgado

Made Spirituality Animals Stupid Become Living Other Our Hundreds Hundreds Of Thousands Cities Thousands Thousands Of Years Born More More And More Smarter Since Been Years Link Survive Land Us Species

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process. Seth Lloyd

Society Significant Computers Devices Huge Huge Amounts Human Human Beings Happened Information Process Which Register Themselves Created Beings Species Amount Fraction

Star Trek's genial premise is that the cosmos is flush with intelligent species, and our descendants will interact with them face-to-face, thanks to warp drive and some winsome space cadets. Seth Shostak

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Consider: Life arose on Earth close to four billion years ago. Four billion years of slithering, swimming, and soaring life forms. But only in the last 200 thousand years has a species arisen that can fathom the laws of nature and build hardware able to signal its presence. Seth Shostak

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We have a lot of historical and religious baggage in our culture. It's ancient; we are clannish as a species. We like things to fit into boxes, and it's unfortunate because humans are unique and should be celebrated and embraced as such. Sherri Saum

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I think when you think of death as being part of the life cycle and recognize that death is an inevitability for our species because the world has to be renewed with each death, then the hope becomes when it is renewed it will be renewed by people on whom I have had some influence for good. Sherwin B. Nuland

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I don't think there was a thunderclap or a divine spark that suddenly made one species smart. You can see, in our ancestors, there was a gradual expansion of the brain; there was an expansion of the complexity of tools. Steven Pinker

You Smart Made Think Tools Our Ancestors Complexity See Divine Brain Expansion Gradual Spark Suddenly Species

We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade. Susan Orlean

Lyrically, 'Planets' is the precursor to 'Acid Rain'; it's about a meteoric, intergalactic war that results in an apocalypse and the human species aligning together to go fight something much better than us, our individual trials and tribulations. Synyster Gates

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