Homo sapiens does its best to forget the fact, but it is an animal. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“in the not-so-distant future we might again have to contend with non-sapiens humans.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Homo sapiens is only man, in the fullest sense of the word, when his grammar contains no question marks, only exclamation marks,… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Sapiens don’t behave according to a cold mathematical logic, but rather according to a warm social logic. We are ruled by emotions.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Sapiens, in contrast, live in triple-layered reality. In addition to trees, rivers, fears and desires, the Sapiens world also contains stories about… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Together you are a species that grows in all aspects of life – separated you are a mere speck of dust in… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Homo sapiens, you and me, we are basically the same as people 10,000 years ago. The next revolution will change that. — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies… — Stephen Jay Gould 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 extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
“other words, while the behaviour patterns of archaic humans remained fixed for tens of thousands of years, Sapiens could transform their social… — Yuval Noah Harari 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
When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Technically, our name, to those who speak science, is Homo sapiens— wise person. But we have been described in many other ways.… — China Miéville Copy Share Image
Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our… — Rick Tumlinson Copy Share Image
“It does not take much to provide the objective biological needs of Homo sapiens. After those needs are met, more money can… — 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
“The anthropologists got it wrong when they named our species Homo sapiens ('wise man'). In any case it's an arrogant and bigheaded… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Ceauşescu and his cronies dominated 20 million Romanians for four decades because they ensured three vital conditions. First, they placed loyal communist… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The Sapiens Experiment (A Sonnet) If knowledge is power, Love is superpower. If curiosity is a gift, Compassion is a trove of… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“How can we distinguish what is biologically determined from what people merely try to justify through biological myths? A good rule of… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“In the early twenty-first century the train of progress is again pulling out of the station – and this will probably be… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to… — Sugata Mitra Copy Share Image
“The moment when humanity learns to tame all its primeval biases, only then it will be worth the title "Sapiens", not any… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The truly unique trait of 'Sapiens' is our ability to create and believe fiction. All other animals use their communication system to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Another object lesson of why humans should have stayed in trees, where they could not behave in such an idiotic way. Or… — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
“Seventy thousand years ago, Homo sapiens was still an insignificant animal minding its own business in a corner of Africa. In the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I demand of you, and of the whole world, that you show me a generic character ... by which to distinguish between… — Cari Linneaus Copy Share Image
“Sapiens often use visual marks such as a turban, a beard or a business suit to signal ‘you can trust me, I… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.” — 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