Dodo Quotes (2)
'Why,' said the Dodo, 'the best way to explain it is to do it.'
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1896), 40.
I like people. I like animals, too—whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.
[Stating his alarm for the effect of radioactive fallout on human heredity. The article containing the quote was published three days after he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.]
[Stating his alarm for the effect of radioactive fallout on human heredity. The article containing the quote was published three days after he was awarded the 1962 Nobel Peace Prize.]
Quoted in The New York Times (13 Oct 1962), 179.
See also: | Animal (63) | Dinosaur (6) | Evolution (237) | Human Race (15) | People (12) | Whale (4)
