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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction.
Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.
The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species.
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
A voyage to Europe in the summer of 1921 gave me the first opportunity of observing the wonderful blue opalescence of the Mediterranean Sea. It seemed not unlikely that the phenomenon owed its origin to the scattering of sunlight by the molecules of the water.
I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.
I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.
My dear compatriots, I'm not interested in your race, your origin, your sexual orientation. What interests me is your happiness.
Just being a woman is God's gift. The origin of a child is a mother, a woman. She shows a man what sharing, caring, and loving is all about. That is the essence of a woman.
Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
Where did God come from? If we decide this is an unanswerable question why not save a step and conclude that the origin of the universe is an unanswerable question.
He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.
You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.
Chess is a game where all different sorts of people can come together, not a game in which people are divided because of their religion or country of origin.
However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species.
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.
What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.
We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups.
You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species.
I'm a proud Muslim. I'm proud to have a Pakistani origin. And I want this country to accept me. I want to bring to light the fact that we are all the same.
We have more endangered species here in our islands than any other state in the country.
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
Nagini should be played by an Asian. Scriptwriter J.K. Rowling probably searched for an Asian actress because she researched the origin of Nagini.
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
How pleasant it is to be ignorant! Not to know exactly who Mozart was, to ignore his origin, his influence, the details of his technique! To just let him lead one by the hand.
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
…Perhaps this momentary life of ours is only the light that divides our infinite origin from our infinite end.
You don't like to be lied to, by your friends or in your business dealings. So why would you want to be lied to when it comes to the origin of life or the fate of the planet?
Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.
The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen.
You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.
When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species.
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution.
And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well.
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.
It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
The natural law is the origin and principle of all virtues and their acts, therefore we must first speak about natural law.
In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.
Every joke has its origin - the punching people in the face joke. It hurts like hell to get punched in the face.
I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.
Fundamental ideas are not a consequence of experience, but a result of the particular constitution and activity of the mind, which is independent of all experience in its origin, though constantly combined with experience in its exercise.
