Human Quotes
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Before the Human Genome Project, most scientists assumed, based on our complex brains and behaviors, that humans must have around 100,000 genes; some estimates went as high as 150,000.
Sam Kean -
Some things are very low profile, but if they excite me creatively, I accept them. Sometimes there are high-profile projects, and you have to do it. We all have human limitations. It is a painful decision to turn things down. Even accepting 'Slumdog Millionaire' was a decision that I had to sacrifice another project.
A. R. Rahman
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow -
I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford -
The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode.
N. K. Jemisin
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
Daniel Barenboim -
I think it's a human tendency that's been around for a while to try to be as good as possible to prove your worth.
Veronica Roth -
As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.
N. Scott Momaday -
The chief incalculable in war is the human will.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
KaDee Strickland -
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
Nancy Pearcey
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What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.
Olin Miller -
It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
Felix Bloch -
She was more than human to me. She was a Fairy, a Sylph. I don't know what she was, anything that no one ever saw, and everything that everybody ever wanted. I was swallowed up in an abyss of love in an instant. There was no pausing on the brink, no looking down, or looking back. I was gone, headlong, before I had sense to say a word to her.
Charles Dickens -
I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.
Ram Charan -
Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.
Octave Mirbeau -
To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult.
Isaac Asimov
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
Gary Weiss -
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.
Jack Miller -
There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
Nathaniel Rich -
If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
Sam Kean