The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is…

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be…

— Martin Buber

a father for whom everything is an unshakable duty, for whom there is a right way and a wrong way and nothing in between,…

— Philip Roth

I don't think we have learnt to keep within the limits. They are quite elastic but there is a point beyond which they will…

— Michael Meacher

My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such…

— Carl Sagan

Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk…

— Andrew Linzey

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago, when he…

— Bryan Sykes

When we consider the future of the human species, we can do better than relying upon the least evolved, amygdalar, reptilian parts of our…

— Bryan Johnson

“He then represented to himself the human species, as it really is, as a parcel of insects devouring one another on a little atom…

— Voltaire

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be…

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.

— Erma Bombeck

I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst,…

— Lewis Thomas

Transhumanism literally means "beyond human." It's using science and technology to radically change and improve the human species and experience.

— Zoltan Istvan

“A very long time ago, some 2.5 million years B.C., the mother of human species as we know it, our ultimate ancestor, appeared in…

— Norman F. Cantor

Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire…

— Daniel Dennett