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«With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.»
«There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens.»
«Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable»
«Very few people ever manage what nature manages without effort and mostly without fail. We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo Sapiens. Who's kidding whom?»
«Alone among all creatures, the species that styles itself wise, Homo sapiens, has an abiding interest in its distant origins, knows that its allotted time is short, worries about the future and wonders about the past.»
«The apparent antiquity of the gene responsible for red hair among Celtic peoples suggests that it may have arisen through interbreeding between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, a genetics team in Oxford, England, suggested last month»
«Man thought he had a human spirit. That is totally incorrect. Man is a human spirit which is enwrapped more or less in a mind which is in a body. That is Homo sapiens.»
«The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.»