Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being…

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

All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions of years…

— Peter Diamandis

We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this…

— Ahmed H. Zewail

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

— Buzz Aldrin

We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species?…

— Carl Sagan

A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military…

— Ben Bova

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

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

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

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

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