Top Species Quotes
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Joseph Needham
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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
George Carlin 
81% of people like this quote
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Carl Sagan
79% of people like this quote
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
H. G. Wells
78% of people like this quote
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.
Steve Irwin
67% of people like this quote
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Joseph Needham
64% of people like this quote
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.
Richard Owen
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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation.
Charles Darwin
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The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
Charles Lamb
61% of people like this quote
We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.
Peter R. Grant
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham
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