To discover the true principles of morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods. They need but common… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
Other countries may boast of this and that, but nobody can touch the United States for poisonous snakes. We have about twenty… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
It is the acquisition of skills in particular, irrespective of their utility, that is potent in making life meaningful. Since man has… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make… — Georges Cuvier Copy Share Image
Through sources, we have obtained the following alien assessment of the human species: The male wants to be valued for what he… — Robert Breault Copy Share Image
In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most… — Steve Sheinkin Copy Share Image
If there is a species which is more maltreated than children, then it must be their toys, which they handle in an… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also… — Laura Harrington Copy Share Image
It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
Children, who have so much to learn in so short a time, had involved the tendency to trust adults to instruct them… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
Girls and boys respond to stress differently - not just in our species, but in every mammal scientists have studied. Stress enhances… — Leonard Sax Copy Share Image
I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
