Quotes About Species

The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five moons, population 96 billion. The hub of a galactic domain, stretching across a million planets, a million species. With mankind right in the middle. [Adam faints] The Doctor: [leans towards Rose, still looking out over the Earth] He's your boyfriend.

As he ran through the dense understory, he could read the signs of arboreal intrigue, the drama and power struggles as species vied for control over a patch of sunlight, or giant firs and fungal spores opted to work together for their mutual benefit. He could see time unfolding here, and history, embedded in the whorls and fractal forms of nature, and he would come home, sweating and breathless, and tell her what he'd seen.

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom.

The gods, I correct her. Monotheism sucks, like all despotisms. The species is naturally, democratically, polytheistic, apart from that evolutionary elite which has dispensed with the divine requirement entirely. You instinctively want the gods to be many because you are One.

Our world is fast succumbing to the activities of men and women who would stake the future of our species on beliefs that should not survive an elementary school education.

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses.

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

B?rbaÅ£ii ÅŸi femeile sînt diferiÅ£i. Nu sînt mai buni sau mai r?i — ci diferiÅ£i. Singurul lucru pe care îl au în comun este faptul c? aparÅ£in aceleiaÅŸi specii. Ei tr?iesc în lumi diferite, cu valori diferite ÅŸi conform unor reguli diferite. Toat? lumea ÅŸtie asta, dar foarte puÅ£ini oameni, ÅŸi mai ales foarte puÅ£ini b?rbaÅ£i, sînt dispuÅŸi s-o recunoasc?. Acesta e totuÅŸi adev?rul.

Humanity , n. The human race, collectively, exclusive of the anthropoid poets.

Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out to be. His chief occupation is the extermination of other animals and his own species, which, however, multiplies with such insistent rapidity as to infest the whole habitable earth and Canada.

If a species is subject to repetitive external environmental stimuli over the course of several generations, in time that species will adapt to those stimuli. The genetics of that species will change to support a new internal state, one that will help the species survive that external stimuli for generations to come. This is called survival of the species. It is a linear, slow process for most species.

The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. "Dracula" and "The Fly" may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.

Hominids are all the Neanderthals, australopithecines, Homo habili, Homo erecti, etc., the upright-walking apes of which we are the only surviving species.

Hey, it could be worse," Hammond said of their efforts to protect the woodpecker. "It could be a butterfly." Butterflies were easy, I said. I would soon go to see a couple of clam species that the governor of Georgia had accused of endangering the lives of his state's children. Matteson laughed, "Woodpeckers are pretty, but mussels?" And so it goes.

pheromones, those fascinating chemicals that can initiate mating behavior in certain species

More astonishing, perhaps, is that the variation in DNA among members of the human family is actually larger than the variation between humans and chimpanzees.

All species had some degree of xenophobia hardwired into their brains, even toward aliens they'd come to like. But just as one couldn't be brave in the absence of fear, neither could one be tolerant in the absence of genuine difference.

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed.

For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have become a force of nature

I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.