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Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we have been able to get and how accurate our predictions are. I think understanding how the universe was born is very important. It really gives us a perspective on many things.
Yuri Milner

Science, Amazing, Important

We will never bring peace at the hands of war. As a species we have to rise above it.
Rosie O'Donnell

Peace, War, Rise

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food.
Mark Hyman

Best, Food, Diet

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation.
Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Great, God, Mind

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

War, Human, Against

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline.
Norm Dicks

Act, Effective, Harm

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
James Hansen

Future, Children, Moral

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
James Hansen

Destroying, Climate, Shifting

Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
James Hansen

Time, History, Cannot

Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce.
Joseph Rotblat

Science, Human, Whole

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
Walter Lang

Asking, Embarrass, Definition

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.
Robert Fortune

Small, High, Price

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
J. Philippe Rushton

Race, Variety, Term

In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known.
Thomas Malthus

Great, Equality, Simple

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
James Boswell

Good, May, Innocent

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.
Daniel Keys Moran

Change, Human, Means

I like L.A., but I think what's changed is that the kinds of films I do, the mid-range dramatic film, has become an endangered species.
Christopher Hampton

Become, Film, Films

Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.
Dianne Feinstein

Revolution, Fact, Earth

An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
Man Ray

Human, Desire, Create

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds.
William Bartram

Great, Strength, Young

People will be fascinated. We will think of each other in a far more homogeneous way, because we will know that there is something that is different from us. And when we say 'us,' it will mean as a species.
Dwight Schultz

Mean, Different, Far

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species.
John Hughes

Human, Kids, Lower

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

Experience, Stress, Reason

My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
Julia Cameron

Writing, Different, Around

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.
George G. Simpson

Small, Find, Earth

What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
Seth Lloyd

Computers, Society, Human

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
Alfred Marshall

Name, Land, Leading

Endangered species are our friends.
Yao Ming

Friends, Endangered

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
Bruce Babbitt

Life, Act, Taking

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.
Carrie P. Snow

Same, Cannot, Longer

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