Species Difference Quotes

Dogs are intelligent beings; they are not human beings. The life of a dog - there's no equivalency with the life of a person, and if you are putting a dog in the line of danger to save human life, and they can do the job reasonably well, I mean, seriously, what about dignity and self-respect? I feel like going out to dinner, I think I will have my cocker spaniel host the show tonight.

A fish and a bird may indeed fall in love, but where shall they live?

We humans have a tendency to see ourselves as completely different from other animals, and the way in which large segments of the public continue to reject the theory of evolution is just one symptom of that malaise.

Dogs are not 'people' of another species. They are another species. To train and care for them properly, to show them how to live in our complex world, requires first and foremost that we understand that.

I am more proud of what distinguishes man from the animals than of what he has in common with them.

I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low.

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

The way to make a worm live longer is probably quite different from making a human live longer.

[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to be particularly interesting children; just the fact that they are children is sufficient. They don't know what anything is, so they have to make it up. No matter how dull they are, they still have to figure things out for themselves.

I don't think we interbred with the Neanderthals at all. There are some people who think that there was some level of interbreeding. I think that we look so biologically different, that we looked and we acted so different, and we culturally were so different that we would not have had interbreeding between two species.

Primates feel pure, flat immobility as boredom. But dogs feel it as peace.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Why is there such a gap between nonspeaking animals and speaking man, when there is no other such gap in nature?

I do love animals so much, and have a great respect for them emotionally and intellectually, because they are so different from human beings.

No distinction in kind rather than degree between ourselves and the chimps? No distinction? Seriously, folks? Here is a simple operational test: the chimpanzees invariably are the one behind the bars of their cages.

Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms.

If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human.

Even in the important matter of cranial capacity, Men differ more widely from one another than they do from the Apes; while the lowest Apes differ as much, in proportion, from the highest, as the latter does from Man.

There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will.

A fish may love a bird, but where would they live?

We’re only human.” “One of us, anyway. The other’s a reptile.” “Harsh, Annabelle. Very harsh.

You cannot use butterfly language to communicate with caterpillars

The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.