#species

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. ↗

— Henri Poincare

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As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. ↗

— Chaim Potok

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Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. ↗

— Dixie Lee Ray

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It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. ↗

— David Attenborough

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When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. ↗

— Donald Johanson

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Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. ↗

— Louis Kronenberger

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Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. ↗

— Jean Rostand

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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

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