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• We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.
  -- S.J. Gould...
• Homo sapiens. The greatest oxymoron ever!
• The enemy of science is irrationalism, not religion. -- Stephen Jay Gould
• The spirit of Plato dies hard. We have been unable to escape the philosophical tradition that what we can see and measure in the world is merely the superficial and imperfect representation of an underlying reality.
  -- Stephen Jay Gould, "The Mismeasure of Ma...
• Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
  Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself. -- Lazarus Long...
• If we are still here to witness the destruction of our planet some five billion years or more hence
  hen we will have achieved something so unprecedented in the history of life that we should be willing to sing our swansong with joy-- *sic transit gloria mundi*....
• Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock.
  Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history....
• Animals can be driven crazy by putting too many in too small a pen.
  Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself....
• We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life
  few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within....