I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party.
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal species became extinct. New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years. But these are time scales and generations that we cannot imagine.
For a taste that's a bit more distinct, eat a bird before it's extinct.
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
If criticism had any power to harm, the skunk would be extinct by now.
The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.
If you can't even manage to to force your own presumably democratic governments to allow you to do good things for yourselves, then you probably deserve to become extinct.
If you don't change, you will become extinct.
The only thing we can't buy more of is time. " she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct.
For every language that becomes extinct, an image of man disappears.
With enough money and international coordination, we can push incoming asteroids out of Earth's path. We might even be able to bring back extinct animals in the lab. The problem really isn't scientific - it's cultural. We aren't yet able to coordinate ourselves as a global civilization to do something simple like bring food to a famine-stricken region. We can actually use current satellite technologies to predict where famine will strike next, but we can't get food there - usually for political reasons.
The survival value of intelligence is that it allows us to extinct a bad idea, before the idea extincts us.
If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.
Every time another tribe becomes extinct and their language dies, another way of life and another way of understanding the world disappears forever. Even if it has been painstakingly studied and recorded, a language without a people to speak - it means little. A language can only live if its people live, and if today's uncontacted tribes are to have a future, we must respect their right to choose their own way of life.
If nothing were left of an extinct race but a single button, I would be able to infer, form the shape of that button, how these people dressed, built their houses, how they lived, what was their religion, their art, their mentality.
The music business is really, really small. The real music is becoming almost extinct, if you don't stay true to who you are.
To conjure a particular knowledge you visualize an architectural structure and then you walk around and see the details that then bring back the words or the poetry or the lines of thought. Memory's going extinct because we rely on machines and copies and so on. The idea of working with structures that conjure dreams, personages, history, time, that can be contained in this way as you walk through your mind, is a challenge.
We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life. . . We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
A language, like a species, when extinct, never. . . reappears.
