The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The only animal from which humans have nothing to learn, in fact, is the sheep. Humans have already learned everything the sheep's… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
In 2008, a year of supposed 'food crisis', we grew enough food to feed 11 billion people. Most of it was not… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind, and spirit which gives the frail human reed… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
Western man wrote "his" history as if it were the history of the entire human race. — John Oliver Killens Copy Share Image
I personally believe that the solar flares are more responsible for climatic cycles than anything that human beings do — Jim Sensenbrenner Copy Share Image
I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans natural competitiveness… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
Aiming at health, restoring health - that is a goal that is both morally important and limited, because it aims at the… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
To look for a continuation in harmony between a number of independent unconnected sovereignties, situated in the same neighborhood, would be to… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Every civilization depends on the quality of the individuals it produces. If you over-organize humans, over-legalize them, suppress their urge to greatness-they… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Desperately struggling, kicking down other people. Stealing the stolen, while repeating your reasons over and over. And even so, you aim for… — Yana Toboso Copy Share Image
Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
You have visits, then you have disappearances. You enter, then you exit. You come, you go. It would be so great if… — Eve Ensler Copy Share Image
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
It sucked, but it was way cool at the same time," Gazzy said. "I felt like the Blue Angels!" "Yeah, except the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
A telkhine was hunched over a console, but he was so involved with his work, he didn't notice us. He was about… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The value of the Old Testament may be dependant on what seems its imperfection. It may repel one use in order that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best,… — Questlove Copy Share Image
The most perfect philosophy of the natural kind only staves off our ignorance a little longer: as perhaps the most perfect philosophy… — David Hume Copy Share Image
There is an ultimate wildness in all this, for the universe, as existence itself, is a terrifying as well as a benign… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
As for meat, let me say it upfront:Humans haven’t fully adapted to eating meat. — Ori Hofmekler Copy Share Image
Any conqueror in human history has always been ultimately someone who exists purely for the expansion of their own ego, through amounting… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
Your soul wants experience. It wants the world. You're a human - and your eternal. The two are the same. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Human life is far more important than just getting to the top of a mountain. — Edmund Hillary Copy Share Image
Human beings are under the control of a strange force that bends them in absurd ways, forcing them to play a role… — Jacques Vallee Copy Share Image
Any action that arises out of stress is of low quality, and it contributes to human suffering. You are making yourself and… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race. — Bernard Marcus Copy Share Image
Had your forefathers, Wigglesworth, been as stupid as you are, the human race would never have succeeded in procreating itself. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Democracy is not simply a political system; it is a moral movement and it springs from adventurous faith in human possibilities. — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We’re difficult to ourselves, we’re difficult to each other. — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
The gods, after all, are only human, and once their rage has been placated they are perfectly capable of acts of mercy… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Not only who am I, but who are we? And where are we going? It's the "we." It's the social connections that… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
