Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jared Diamond

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

Asa Gray

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Brian Perkins

It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.

Ian Campbell

Every precaution should be taken to help prevent the extinction of this rare bird. I understand this will be a disappointing outcome for the proponents of the wind farm.

Stephen Jay Gould

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.

Greg Gianforte

The Oracles and SAPs of the world are truly dinosaurs. Their extinction is imminent.

Thomas French

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

Steven Weinberg

It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future extinction of endless cold or intolerable heat. The more the universe seems comprehensible, the more it seems pointless.

Joel Sternfeld

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that always prevails: rich nations will find ways to protect themselves and make themselves comfortable, while the poor nations and the poor people of the planet will suffer.

August Wilson

I think it is an extraordinary honor, and it is truly a capstone of my career. I am overwhelmed.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

The cross pollination of disciplines is fundamental to truly revolutionary advances in our culture.

David Williams

They are truly the ones that do all the real work.

Harriet Ziefert

It's nothing huge, nothing truly terrible. They're more like little aggravations,

Jillian Messenger

I truly have a lot of all-stars on this team, I really do.

Al Thornton

I truly feel like we have done enough to get in the tournament.

Todd Miller

This is truly a localized show down to the jokes.

Julie Foudy

It wasn't just that we were together; we were truly a family. There was always laughter.

Dianna Agron

Without love we are not truly living.