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“That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.”

Would Be Certain Individual Conditions Constant Species Organisms Variability

Author:Richard Owen

“If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Persons Humanity Conditions Figures Normal Species Definitions Income Excellent Muscles Looking Good Single Person Human Species Disposable Adverts

Author:Francis Spufford

“Every true poet, I thought, must be original and originality a condition of poetic genius; so that each poet is like a species in nature (not an individuum genericum or specificum ) and can never recur. That nothing shd. be old or borrowed however cannot be.”

Conditions Poet Genius Originals Species Poetic Originality Borrowed Very True

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)

“Everything that makes diversity of kinds, of species, differences, properties... everything that consists in generation, decay, alteration and change is not an entity, but a condition and circumstance of entity and being, which is one, infinite, immobile, subject, matter, life, death, truth, lies, good and evil.”

Kind Matter Lying Evil Differences Generations Conditions Subjects Circumstances Diversity Infinite Property Species Good And Evil Decay Entity Subject Matter Life Death Alterations

Author:Giordano Bruno

“Artificial flight may be defined as that form of aviation in which a man flies at will in any direction by means of an apparatus attached to his body, the use of which requires personal skill. Artificial flight by a single individual is the proper beginning for all species of artificial flight, as the necessary conditions can most easily be fulfilled when man flies individually.”

Men May Mean Use Body Form Individual Conditions Skills Species Flight Defined Aviation Artificial Fulfilled

Author:Otto Lilienthal

“Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.”

Men May Matter Form Conditions Ignorance No Matter What Species Arise Horrible

Author:Honore de Balzac

“The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected that the road to the heart of the species problem lay through them, until Darwin and Wallace dispelled the darkness.”

Heart Enough Facts Problem Existence Darkness Struggle Conditions Lays Species Adaptation Notorious Struggle For Existence Variability

Book:Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early condition of the individual indicates that of the race,-that the best test of the affinities of a species are the stages through which it passes. So also it is in the case of man; the life of each individual is an epitome of the history of the race, and the gradual development of the child illustrates that of the species.”

Men Children Science Individual Race Cases Conditions Stage Development Tests Species Comparison Savages Affinity Naturalist Epitome

Book:Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages

Source: Pre-historic Times: As Illustrated by Ancient Remains and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages

“Law of the Minimum: "The worst potential competition for any organism can come from its own kind. The species consumes necessities. Growth is limited by that necessity which is present in the least amount. The least favourable condition controls the rate of growth."”

Kind Law Growth Worst Conditions Amount Competition Species Rate Minimum Organisms

Author:Frank Herbert

“Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking.”

Thinking Knows World Humans Today Order Process Race Conditions Species Human Race Bombs Altered Atomic Bomb Habitat

Book:Einstein on Peace

Source: Einstein on Peace

“We must learn to acknowledge that the creation is full of mystery; we will never entirely understand it. We must abandon arrogance and stand in awe. We must recover the sense of the majesty of creation, and the ability to be worshipful in its presence. For I do not doubt that it is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.”

World Able Ability Doubt Mystery Conditions Creation Humility Species Acknowledge Arrogance Awe Abandon Reverence Majesty

Book:The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry

Source: The World-Ending Fire: The Essential Wendell Berry