Quotes About Diversity

Humans are so fascinating, aren't we? If ten of us are each given our own piano, we'll play eleven different tunes.

If we want to understand other minds, the minds of cephalopods are the most other of all.

Cephalopods are evolution's only experiment in big brains outside of the vertebrates.

For an octopus, its arms are partly self

if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present

Social cohesion was built into language long before Facebook and LinkedIn and Twitter - we're tribal by nature. Tribes today aren't the same as tribes thousand of years ago: It isn't just religious tribes or ethnic tribes now: It's sports fans, it's communities, it's geography.

I've had the privilege of learning foreign languages. Instead of merely speaking a watered-down form of my mother tongue, like most people, I'm also helpless in two or three other languages.

The French cranium measurers ran into serious problems in Greenland.

De satte kurs mot kyrkan, arm i arm. En lång fräknig kvinna, i vars underliv säd från tre olika män förgäves försökte hålla sams. Och en gaselliknande flicka med en funktionspromille på 1,2 som höll sig upprätt och någorlunda klar enbart på grund av väninnans stöd, B-vitaminerna och sin nyfikenhet.

Any race of people that allows itself to be graded on a scale designed by European science will appear to be a culture of higher primates.

I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity.

In a sense, the mentally deranged and feebleminded were my guardian angels, and when I hadn't seen any of them in a long time, the sight of an idiot gave me a sudden burst of health and strength.

Cultures reflect the interactions of mixed populations.

In Fuling I was always extremely conscious of my appearance, because every day I was confronted by the ways in which I looked different from the locals, but now in these desert towns I saw people with noses and hair and eyes like mine. For the first time I realized the full importance of race, not just in the way it divided people, but also in the sense of feeling a link to those who looked like you.

Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.

So God created the great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters teemed according to their kinds, and every bird of flight after its kind. And God saw that it was good.

Two of every kind of bird and animal and crawling creature will come to you to be kept alive.

You are to take with you seven pairs of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate; a pair of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate;

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

The clean and unclean animals, the birds, and everything that crawls along the ground

they and every kind of wild animal, livestock, crawling creature, bird, and winged creature.

Bring out all the living creatures that are with you—birds, livestock, and everything that crawls upon the ground—so that they can spread out over the earth and be fruitful and multiply upon it.”

Every living creature, every creeping thing, and every bird—everything that moves upon the earth—came out of the ark, kind by kind.

Everything that lives and moves will be food for you; just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you all things.