Humans Quotes - page 5

The older I get, the more individuality I find in animals and the less I find in humans. (Chuck Jones)
Learn to control ego. Humans hold their dogmas and biases too tightly, and we only think that our opponents are dogmatic! But we all need criticism. Criticism is the only known antidote to error. View quote
David Brin
Natural selection operates according to immediate circumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendent of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it. View quote
Richard Leakey
Randomness works well in search-sometimes better than humans. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Much of the research into humans' risk-avoidance machinery shows that it is antiquated and unfit for the modern world; it is made to counter repeatable attacks and learn from specifics. If someone narrowly escapes being eaten by a tiger in a certain cave, then he learns to avoid that cave. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one. View quote
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Humans are not as unsophisticated as mulch wrigglers, they can see the writing on the wall. Is it any surprise, that among the ones who look outward, the real debate is not over whether to run, but over how far and how fast? View quote
Charles Stross
Humans are just barely intelligent tool users; Darwinian evolutionary selection stopped when language and tool use converged, leaving the average hairy meme carrier sadly deficient in smarts. View quote
Charles Stross
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it. View quote
Cesar Millan
You humans seem to have a profound capacity for ignoring obvious evidence. (Robert J. Sawyer)
Christianity was an epidemic rather than a religion. It appealed to fear, hysteria and ignorance. It spread across the Western world, not because it was true, but because humans are gullible and superstitious. View quote
Colin Wilson
Love is the grounding of our existence as humans, and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings. View quote
Humberto Maturana
Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects. View quote
Herta Müller
So, ultimately, in order to understand nature it may be necessary to have a deeper understanding of mathematical relationships. But the real reason is that the subject is enjoyable, and although we humans cut nature up in different ways, and we have different courses in different departments, such compartmentalization is really artificial, and we should take our intellectual pleasures where we find them. View quote
Richard Feynman
A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life. View quote
Carl Sagan
We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st. View quote
Carl Sagan
Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic. View quote
Carl Sagan
The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness. View quote
Carl Sagan
Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television. View quote
Carl Sagan
To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just. (Heraclitus)
We humans have many vestigial features proving that we evolved. The most famous is the appendix. View quote
Jerry Coyne
... Let me tell you that my friend and I do not discriminate between humans. We do not ask what race or what religion he is from. He has to be a human being. That is all that's important for us. View quote
Theodor Herzl
Nature is not cruel, pitilessly, indifferent. This is one of the hardest lessons for humans to learn. We cannot admit that things might beneither good nor evil, neither cruel nor kind, but simply callous indifferent to all suffering, lacking all purpose. View quote
Richard Dawkins
We admit that we are like apes, but we seldom realise that we are apes. Our common ancestor with the chimpanzees and gorillas is much more recent than their common ancestor with the Asian apes - the gibbons and orangutans. There is no natural category that includes chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans but excludes humans. View quote
Richard Dawkins