Top Species Quotes

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original...

Species Definition

(n.) Visible or sensible presentation; appearance; a sensible percept received by the imagination; an image.

(n.) A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes, and extending to fewer individuals. Thus, man is a species, under animal as a genus; and man, in its turn, may be regarded as a genus with respect to European, American, or the like, as species.

(n.) In science, a more or less permanent group of existing things or beings, associated according to attributes, or properties determined by scientific observation.

(n.) A sort; a kind; a variety; as, a species of low cunning; a species of generosity; a species of cloth.

(n.) Coin, or coined silver, gold, ot other metal, used as a circulating medium; specie.

(n.) A public spectacle or exhibition.

(n.) A component part of compound medicine; a simple.

(n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture.

(n.) The form or shape given to materials; fashion or shape; form; figure.

My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension...

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently...

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

The more a species is rare the more we like and protect it... So what about humans?

Never ever have any doubt on yourself. You are the priceless species in this world.Don't undermine yourself by comparing with others. You are a victor!!!

The science done by the young Einstein will continue as long as our civilization, but for civilization to survive, we'll need the wisdom of the old Einstein -- humane, global and farseeing. And whatev...

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim...

To a good approximation, all species are insects.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so yo...

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

Well, the gold fish in the bowl lay upside down bloatingFull in the sky and the plains were bleached white with skeletonsVarious species grouped together accordingTo their past beliefsThe only way the...

Bullying is an attack upon the runts of the litter - the weak of the species, and it is predicated on a lack of bond with the parents. If a child has a secure bond with the parents, that forms a force...

Pardon me, sir, Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck, if I understand you correctly, it seems you have identified the different textures of human hair as...

It is not always the magnitude of the differences observed between species that must determine specific distinctions, but the constant preservation of those differences in reproduction.