Again and again Quote by Michael Shermer

I think if we could turn the dial a bit, and try to take what the philosopher Henry Sidgwick called "the point of view…

— Paul Bloom

We want to think of ourselves as truly special creatures that are unique in the universe and, well, we are. And we have that…

— Sylvia Earle

We are special in the sense that we can know our place in the cosmos. We can know our place in space. We are…

— Bill Nye

I think now, with our technology, our capacity to grow food, our ability to stop raping the Earth and destroying the ecology and killing…

— Harry Belafonte

A belief in reincarnation would at least give us some slack; we would have many lifetimes to get it right.

— Anonymous

The goal is to become the unique, awesome, never to be repeated human being that we were called to be.

— Patricia Deegan

What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?

— Paulo Freire

If humankind would accept and acknowledge this responsibility and become creatively engaged in the process of evolution, consciously as well as unconsciously, a new…

— Jonas Salk

If we discover a desire within us that nothing in this world can satisfy, also we should begin to wonder if perhaps we were…

— C. S. Lewis

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

— William Styron

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to…

— Louise Leakey

...if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record…

— Bill Bryson