Creatures Quote by Noam Chomsky

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

— Marshall McLuhan

We make our tools, and then they shape us.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We shape our tools and afterwards our tools shape us.

— Marshall McLuhan

Human beings are tool-making animals. Since the prehistoric era, we have created and used a wide variety of objects. But now a significant change…

— John Twelve Hawks

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules,…

— Stanislav Grof

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots…

— Roger Zelazny

“to treat a human being as an animal - as a mere space-binder - because humans have certain animal propensities, is an error of…

— Alfred Korzybski

Human beings are storytelling animals. That's what separates us from other creatures, not just having thumbs or using tools.

— Marion Dane Bauer

To regard human beings as tools - as instruments - for the use of other human beings is not only unscientific but it is…

— Alfred Korzybski

The shapes we are creating are not abstract, they are absolute. They are released from any already existant thing in nature and their content…

— Naum Gabo

We've been merging with tools since the beginning of human evolution, and arguably, that's one of the things that makes us human beings.

— Franklin Foer

Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their…

— Stuart Chase