Sapiens Quotes

70 Sapiens quotes by 54 unique authors

Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo… — Jock Sturges
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould
It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species… — Desmond Morris
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all… — Cees Nooteboom
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the… — Juan Enriquez
A need to tell and hear stories is essential to the species Homo sapiens-second in necessity apparently after nourishment and before love and shelter. Millions… — Reynolds Price
We're all homos. Homo sapiens. — Michael Scott
Ah, but is it not the mind that is the real grace of Homo sapiens? All the things to think about! All the things to… — Carol Emshwiller
Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have… — Jeff Schweitzer
Every culture from the Egyptians to the Mayans to the American Indians to the Bedouins created bestiaries that enabled them to express their relationship with… — Gregory Colbert
The paradox of the human condition is expressed more in education than elsewhere in human culture, because learning to learn has been and continues to… — Jules Henry
The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that… — Jules Henry
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of… — William Ralph Inge
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious… — Nikki Giovanni
The language of art is powerful to those who understand it, and puzzling to those who do not. What we do know is that here… — Richard Leakey
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans,… — Richard Leakey
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium… — Richard Leakey
It is of man's essence to create materially and morally, to fabricate things and to fabricate himself. Homo faber is the definition I propose ...… — Henri Bergson
If humans one day become extinct from a catastrophic collision, there would be no greater tragedy in the history of life in the universe. Not… — Neil deGrasse Tyson
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98… — Sebastian Faulks
When homo sapiens is changing, it will not be by the whole race gaining simultaneously whatever qualities better fit it for survival, but rather by… — Charles Galton Darwin
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. — Joyce Carol Oates

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