Age Quote by Frederick Lenz

Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous…

— Thomas Sowell

I believe that the destructive nature of society that now threatens the existence of the entire human world has much to do with human…

— Dalai Lama

Humanity actually has the gall to feel they are more advanced than they were; technology somehow defines intelligence. If technology enables you to kill…

— Frederick Lenz

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines.

— Carl Jung

We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a…

— Nick Bostrom

It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what we are…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

The earth destroys its fools, but the intelligent destroy the earth.

— Khalid ibn al-Walid

Most of the intelligence out there must be artificial intelligence. We keep looking for critters like us living on a planet like ours, where…

— Seth Shostak

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population,…

— Paul MacCready

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

— Julian Huxley