The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“An algorithm is a methodical set of steps that can be used to make calculations, resolve problems and reach decisions. An algorithm… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I use the word “man” loosely. A better description would be “the most beautiful specimen of Homo sapiens sapiens with a set… — Elle Lothlorien Copy Share Image
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door… — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
“When the car replaced the horse-drawn carriage, we didn’t upgrade the horses – we retired them. Perhaps it is time to do… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Tinkering with our genes won’t necessarily kill us. But we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo… — Cees Nooteboom Copy Share Image
The humanity and the humility, which are very different than the biological species homo sapiens. Humanity versus homo sapiens - very different… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival,… — Charles Galton Darwin Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty… — Bobby Miller Copy Share Image
Aberjhani's writing blows the mind and frees the psyche of any rigid assumptions about ancestral heritage. Here, our collective experience is starkly… — Rosy Cole Copy Share Image
“After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To avoid a misconception, it must be clarified that a world of steadily increasing wealth by no means ends human competition, and… — Azar Gat Copy Share Image
“Those Who From Heaven To Earth Came". They landed on Earth, colonized it, mining the Earth for gold and other minerals, establishing… — Zecharia Sitchin Copy Share Image
“It’s a common fallacy to envision these species as arranged in a straight line of descent, with Ergaster begetting Erectus, Erectus begetting… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Evolutionary scholars have long stressed the adaptive role of aggressive and antisocial behavior as a high-risk strategy for social and mating competition.… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
If we make this readjustment to view Homo sapiens as an ultimate in oddball rarity, and life at bacterial grade as the… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Overall, it seems now possible to draw a reasonably good explanation of why the human condition is a singularity, why the likes… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Whether Sapiens are to blame or not, no sooner had they arrived at a new location than the native population became extinct.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
“If the man in the street can get the drift of pride of the herd,if many people can get the hang of… — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though… — Nikki Giovanni Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me… — Zeresenay Alemseged Copy Share Image
“Admittedly there could have been interbreeding between archaic and modern Homo sapiens, but there is no convincing evidence for this in our… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
So, it seems, everything is in place. For the first time since homo sapiens began to doodle on cave walls, there is… — Gideon Rachman Copy Share Image
“It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
“scenarios. But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus! — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“fact, however, the lesson is just the opposite. The story demonstrates that by humanising animals we usually underestimate animal cognition and ignore… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I will always admit immediately to what’s obvious, which is that homo sapiens is inherently erotic or sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens is a social being, and our well-being depends to a large extent on the quality and depth of our social… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss Copy Share Image
