Top 1200 Origin Of Species Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It is to have a compulsive, repetitive, and nostalgic desire for the archive, an irrepressible desire to return to the origin, a homesickness, a nostalgia for the return to the most archaic place of absolute commencement

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.

There are some species, one was the Goliath Tigerfish, that took me six years to track down and catch.

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

Freud's view is that all love is sexual in its origin or its basis. Even those loves which do not appear to be sexual or erotic have a sexual root or core. They are all sublimations of the sexual instinct.

It will be found that everything depends on the composition of the forces with which the particles of matter act upon one another; and from these forces, as a matter of fact, all phenomena of Nature take their origin.

The family in the West is finished... its origin was economic, not biological... the odd group of strangers that make up every family no longer have any reason to live together, to suffer from one another's jagged edges.

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others

At Vienna, one of the audience affirmed publicly that my performance was not surprising, for he had distinctly seen, while I was playing my variations, the devil at my elbow, directing my arm and guiding my bow. My resemblance to the devil was a proof of my origin.

I drink regular pour-over coffee, black. It's all about the beans. I'm always stocked at home with single-origin coffees from around the world, never more than two weeks old, kept in airtight containers.

Continents may break up, continents may emerge, but the human race is immortal in its origin and in its growth, and there is nothing to be afraid of, even if the foundations of the earth be moved.

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

The latest horror to hit the U.S. looks to have been caused by people of Middle Eastern origin, bearing Muslim names. Again, shame. This fuels more hatred for a religion and a people who have nothing to do with these events.

But I also assert that most of us don't look for miracles, don't recognize them for what they really are, and don't really believe them to be of divine origin even if their miraculous nature is noticed.

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

The positive testimony of history is that the State invariably had its origin in conquest and confiscation. No primitive State known to history originated in any other manner.

The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually.

When a war is waged by two opposing groups of robbers for the sake of deciding who shall have a freer hand to oppress more people, then the question of the origin of the war is of no real economic or political significance.

Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.

Im an actor, full stop. Not an Arab actor. Not an actor of Algerian origin. Just an actor.

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.

But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage, even when the news item is something as uninteresting as the cosmic origin of every element in your body.

I am sure I was an evolutionist in the abstract, or by the quality and complexion of my mind, before I read Darwin, but to become an evolutionist in the concrete, and accept the doctrine of the animal origin of man, has not for me been an easy matter.

Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his company I was never in any way reminded of my humble origin, or of my unpopular color.

A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.

It's amazing to see how if we don't open our minds to something different, we wont evolve as a species.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

Mind you, I live in an area of Atlanta that is nearly 88% black. But in six days in and around Melbourne, I saw maybe three people of African origin and maybe one easily identifiable Australian aborigine.

All failed lovers rewrite the script, as if one sexual detail or another might have tipped the balance of pain into destiny, either tragic or miraculous. History record the names of royal bastards, but cannot tell us the origin of wheat.

My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.

The likelihood of treatment (of any one patient) increases with the length of time since the origin of the disease. ...Those cases in which the neoplastic process progresses slowly...are more likely to be transferred to the 'treated' category than to remain in the 'untreated'.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.

I think origin stories are a great way to get people reinvested in a story. I mean, we originally accepted 'Star Trek' without knowing anything about Kirk or Spock. All we needed to know was that it took place in the future.

It's a remarkable pace of which things change and adapt, and it's hard for us to keep up with as a species.

No attempt to explain the world, either scientifically or theologically, can be considered successful until it accounts for the paradoxical conjunction of the temporal and the atemporal, of being and becoming. And no subject conforms this paradoical conjuction more starkly than the origin of the universe.