Best Human Species Sayings
119 Human Species quotes by 102 unique authors
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The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if…
— Dean Koontz
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Gass once wrote: "Language serves not only to express thought but to make possible thoughts which could not exist without it." Here is the essence…
— Dan Simmons
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No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series…
— William Buckland
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
— Alison Gopnik
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Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species.
— William Godwin
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The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to surface --within consciousness.…
— Brian Swimme
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Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
— Alan D. Eames
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The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man.
— Jose Ortega y Gasset
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A lot of people refuse to do things because they don't want to go naked... . We as black people, we as people, we as…
— Nikki Giovanni
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Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.
— Carl Sagan
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In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking…
— Francis Spufford
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I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got,…
— Jess C Scott
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The human species has all but lost its heart; we gave it up for the illusionary fruits of the material world. But a life without…
— Marianne Williamson
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A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power.…
— Ben Bova
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If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth and colonize space.…
— Frank J. Tipler
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An active propaganda machinery controlled bv the world's largest corporations constantly reassures us that consumerism is the path to happiness, governmental restraint of market excess…
— David Korten
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The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
— Larry Niven
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A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not about political prestige or military power.…
— Ben Bova
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The human species is often amazingly inventive and industrious but at the same time profoundly lazy. It's very clear that we humans don't like to…
— Charles Petzold
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Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but also ignores the…
— J. Philippe Rushton
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Unlike the pattern which seems to prevail in the rest of life, in the human species the weak not only survive but often triumph over…
— Eric Hoffer
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Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence…
— E. O. Wilson
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Diminish the mass of evils that afflict the human species, increase enjoyment and well-being. And even if the new routes opened up could prolong the…
— Antoine Lavoisier
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