Humans Quotes
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There is behavioral ecology, which looks closely at the difference different ecologies make to behavior and other features of animals and humans. There's evolutionary individual psychology, there's evolutionary social psychology. In Darwin's terms, evolution couldn't exist without variation, and variation is important in behavioral genetics. And so on, and so on. There are so many instances in which evolution actually sharpens the precision, I think, with which one can find out the importance of differences. We're interested in differences as well as commonalities.
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Humans have "dominion" over animals. But that "dominion" (radah in Hebrew) does not mean despotism, rather we are set over creation to care for what God has made and to treasure God's own treasures.
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I am more and more convinced, of the propensity in human nature to tyranize over their fellow men.
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The introduction of cooking may well have been the decisive factor in leading man from a primarily animal existence into one that was more fully human.
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Mathematics is universal. It's discovered by human beings, but the rules of mathematics are the same throughout the universe and the laws of the universe.
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I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.
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It's monstrous that Europe, which is fighting for human rights, refused seriously sick Slobodan Milosevic treatment.
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Chess is a contributor to net human unhappiness, since the pleasure of victory is greatly exceeded by the pain of defeat.
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In this new millennium it is more important to defend the rights of the Mother Earth to guarantee human rights.
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Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.
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Human society is like an arch, kept from falling by the mutual pressure of its parts
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Without language, it is safe to say that man would not have become fully human.
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If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.
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Dictators have always played on the natural human tendency to blame others and to oversimplify.
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I have looked further into space than ever human being did before me. I have observed stars of which the light, it can be proved, must take two million years to reach the earth.
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What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information, which is a significant fraction of the amount of information that human beings themselves, as a species, can process.
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We humans are conflicted beings. Our beliefs don't always harmonize with our instincts, and our behavior doesn't always reflect our beliefs. ... We wage war between the person we are and the person we hope to become.
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We humans usually feel that we are the best at everything we do, that we can safely drive ourselves. But tens of thousands of people die every year. We need to be open to having technology assist us, to find ways in which technology makes us safer.
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. . . Now you see . . . they' re not fit for humans . . ." "Put them on me.
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Whatever subjectivity we are going to talk about is going to be in an intersubjectivity of human beings that have a certain nature and have certain needs to be met and have to figure out how exactly to do that.
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It must be terrible to have to live among people and not like human nature.
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Very few people realize the damage even one mercury vapor light can inflict on birds, air quality and human sleep patterns. It a serious problem that is rapidly growing and it will take all of us to take action before we see results.
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Humans were peculiar. They were by turns squeamish and appallingly violent.
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Humans cannot communicate; not even their brains can communicate; not even their conscious minds can communicate. Only communication can communicate.
