Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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All humans are frightened of their own solitude. But only in solitude can we learn to know ourselves, learn to handle our own eternal aloneness.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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This script was just so much smarter than usual and I'm just fascinated by human behavior.
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And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?
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The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.
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There is life outside of human beings on planet Earth.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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I'm a human being. I'm not a piece of property. I'm not a consignment of goods.
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the poems to come are for you and for me and are not for mostpeople... you and i are human beings; mostpeople are snobs.
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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
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Perhaps we humans are still in command, and perhaps there really will be a conventional robot war in the not-so-distant future. If so, let's roll.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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I think human beings wouldn't be human without narrative fiction.
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What molting time is to birds, so adversity or misfortune is ... for us humans.
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How wonderful it would be if we humans with illnesses could simply go dormant while the scientific world went about its snail-paced research, and wake only when new, safe medical treatments were available.
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The laissez-faire attitude to science education has resulted in a disaster exemplified by the fact that more young people are opting for media studies than physics.
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I have a musician friend who, after reading Mountains, told me, "When I read the book, I wanted to quit music altogether and become a doctor." I told him, "Do you really think you can be a better doctor than you are a musician? Nobody needs you as a lousy doctor. Just be the one-of-a-kind, brilliant musician you are, and divert your success somehow to benefit the poor." You can achieve so much more this way.
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My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
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I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored.
