Animal Quotes - Page 5

• Animals manifestly enjoy excitement, and suffer from annul and may exhibit curiosity.

  Charles Darwin

  Curiosity, Suffering, May

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• During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.

  Lorenz Oken

  Science, Class, Development

  Lorenz Oken, Alfred Tulk (1847). “Elements of Physiophilosophy”, p.491

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• Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Science, Law, Males

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• Homologue. The same organ in different animals under every variety of form and function.

  Richard Owen

  Science, Differences, Nomenclature

  Richard Owen (1848). “On the Archetype and Homologies of the Vertebrate Skeleton”, p.7

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• I consider the differences between man and animals in propensities, feelings, and intellectual faculties, to be the result of the same cause as that which we assign for the variations in other functions, viz. difference of organization; and that the superiority of man in rational endowments is not greater than the more exquisite, complicated, and perfectly developed structure of his brain, and particularly of his ample cerebral hemispheres, to which the rest of the animal kingdom offers no parallel, nor even any near approximation, is sufficient to account for.

  Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet

  Men, Organization, Differences

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• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  Aristotle

  Class, Males, Female

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1150, Princeton University Press

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• In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of the strong, the servility of the weak, low rapacity, ephemeral pleasure purchased by great effort, death preceded by long suffering, all belong to the animals as they do to men.

  Georges Cuvier

  Death, Strong, Science

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• My aim is to say that the machinery of the heavens is not like a divine animal but like a clock (and anyone who believes a clock has a soul gives the work the honour due to its maker) and that in it almost all the variety of motions is from one very simple magnetic force acting on bodies, as in the clock all motions are from a very simple weight.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Science, Simple

  "New Science Theory". Book by Vincent Wilmot, p.68,

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• Plants, again, inasmuch as they are without locomotion, present no great variety in their heterogeneous pacts. For, when the functions are but few, few also are the organs required to effect them. ... Animals, however, that not only live but perceive, present a great multiformity of pacts, and this diversity is greater in some animals than in others, being most varied in those to whose share has fallen not mere life but life of high degree. Now such an animal is man.

  Aristotle

  Men, Diversity, Degrees

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• Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  Kings, Reading, Science

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• This integrative action in virtue of which the nervous system unifies from separate organs an animal possessing solidarity, an individual, is the problem before us.

  Charles Scott Sherrington

  Science, Action, Problem

  "The Integrative Action of the Nervous System". Book by Charles Sherrington (p. 2), 1947.

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• We animals are the most complicated things in the known universe.

  Richard Dawkins

  Complicated, Known, Universe

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.13, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We must infer that a plant or animal of any species, is made up of special units, in all of which there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to aggregate into the form of that species: just as in the atoms of a salt, there dwells the intrinsic aptitude to crystallize in a particular way.‎

  Herbert Spencer

  Dna, Special, Atoms

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “The Principles of Biology”, p.181

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• Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or any other animal one chooses to take for a walk? I have a liking for lobsters. They are peaceful, serious creatures. ... Goethe had an aversion to dogs, and he wasn't mad. They know the secrets of the sea, they don't bark.

  Gerard De Nerval

  Dog, Cat, Sea

  "Lobsters and Lies" by Madeleine Schwartz, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2011.

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• [Animals] do not so much act as be put into action, and that objects make an impression on their senses such that it is necessary for them to follow it just as it is necessary for the wheels of a clock to follow the weights and the spring that pulls them.

  Marin Mersenne

  Spring, Science, Weight

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• I had a linguistics professor who said that it's man's ability to use language that makes him the dominant species on the planet.That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't afraid of vaccuum cleaners.

  Jeff Stilson

  Funny, Men, Thinking

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• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Inspirational, God, Men

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 49, 1799.

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• Animals generally return the love you lavish on them by a swift bite in passing-not unlike friends and wives.

  Gerald Durrell

  Love You, Wife, Pet

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• Animals when in company walk in a proper and sensible manner, in single file, instead of sprawling all across the road and being of no use or support to each other in case of sudden trouble or danger.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Support, Use, Trouble

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.60, Penguin

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• With an endless assortment of children and animals living under one roof, there was always some absurd crisis that gave comic relief to my problems.

  Sally Jessy Raphael

  Children, Relief, Problem

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• We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have no problems with the extinction of domestic animals. They are creations of human selective breeding.

  Wayne Pacelle

  Generations, Extinction, Different

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• I don't have a hands - on fondness for animals. I did not grow up bonded to any particular nonhuman animal. I like them and I pet them and I'm kind to them, but there's no special bond between me and other animals...

  Wayne Pacelle

  Growing Up, Hands, Pet

  "Bloodties: Nature, Culture, and the Hunt". Book by Ted Kerasote, www.humanewatch.org. 1994.

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• What is there about the notion of a person, at law, that makes every living member of the species Homo sapiens a person, irrespective of their mental capacities, but excludes every nonhuman animal - again, irrespective of their mental capacities?

  Peter Singer

  Law, Capacity, Members

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• Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Genetic engineers don't make new genes, they rearrange existing ones. Speaking as World Wildlife Fund Executive Vice President, stating the need to conserve biodiversity, even plants and animals having no immediate use, as a unique repository of genes for possible future biogengineering applications.

  Thomas Lovejoy

  Unique, President, Library

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• To say that a man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

  Rex Stout

  Believe, Men, Decision

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