Mammal Quotes

“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”

“I used to see dolphins as cute, Smart and funny sea animals. I know now that they're astute, Divine beings, clever mammals.”

“The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch—Homo Sapiens—would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected.Yes, Einstein was a badass.”

“We humans are the Tyrannosaurus Rex of mammals.”

“How slow can a mammal be and still have respiratory functions?”

“Watching large mammals living their ordinary life in the jungle is extraordinary”

“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal”

“Patience was part of his nature, and he accepted his lot as a short-lived mammal, scurrying in and out amid the roots of the giants.”

“Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.”