#species

It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ↗

— Charles Dickens

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

— Marcel Proust

#forest #genealogical #particular #soul #species

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

— David Attenborough

#exterminate #moral #question #right #species

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. ↗

— Martin Luther

#clay #consulted #continue #generation #god

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

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. ↗

— J. Philippe Rushton

#species #subdivision #term #variety

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#basic #basic understanding #citizenry #deserves #how

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved. ↗

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#being #belong #capacity #different #far

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. ↗

— Jock Sturges

#degree #homo #homo sapiens #i #i think

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. ↗

— Jock Sturges

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