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“For more than a century, people have often thought that the conclusion to draw from Darwin's vision is that Homo sapiens, our species - and we're just animals too, we're just mammals - that there is nothing morally special about us. I myself don't think this follows at all from Darwin's vision, but it is certainly the received view in many quarters.”

People Thinking Animal Views Vision Special Century Draws Species Conclusion Quarters Homo Sapiens Mammals

Author:Daniel Dennett

“I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and I am dined upon by any form of creeping animal or root system that sees fit to do so.... I will have recycled back to the universe at least some of the energy that I have taken from it. And in so doing, at the conclusion of my scientific adventures, I will have come closer to the heavens than to Earth.”

Want Action Earth Form Universe Energy Heaven Animal Taken Adventure Fit Roots Conclusion Buried Extinction Want U Old Days Recycled Microorganisms

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.”

Ifs Life Is Next Animal Watches Generations Aim Driven Conclusion Length Genes Next Generation

Author:David Attenborough

“At last gleams of light have come, and I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Heaven forfend me from Lamarck nonsense of a 'tendency to progression', 'adaptations from the slow willing of animals', &c! But the conclusions I am led to are not widely different from his; though the means of change are wholly so. I think I have found out (here's presumption!) the simple way by which species become exquisitely adapted to various ends.”

Source: Charles Darwin's Works: The life and letters of Charles Darwin... ed. by his son, Francis Darwin. 2v

“The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.”

Animal Eating Conclusion Logical Compassionate Respectful Respectful Relationships

Author:Jonathan Balcombe

“Animal rights, taken to their logical conclusion, mean votes for oysters.”

Mean Animal Taken Rights Vote Conclusion Logical Animal Rights Oysters

Author:Bertrand Russell

“[My work] includes something about death, and about love, because the photos always have something to do with death. The photograph is like taxidermy. It is like the animals I use. They are posed in order to appear to be alive, but they are dead. Their time has passed. The photos have to do with time and loss, and conclusion.”

Use Order Loss Love Is Animal Alive Photograph Conclusion Taxidermy

Author:Annette Messager