Humans Quotes

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

I don't believe in technological determinism, especially not in biology and medicine. We have strong laws to keep doctors from monkeying around with humans that will remain in place. It's simply not true that everything that is technologically possible gets done.

Coming to terms with our true natures and who we really are has always been a fascination to humans. I know it fascinates me.

People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

As humans we like to laugh at our fears, we like to whistle in the dark.

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves?

The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.

Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science.

The performances I enjoy are the ones that are hard to read or ambiguous or left-of-centre because it makes you look closer and that's what humans are like - quite mysterious creatures, hard to pinpoint.

Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality.

For every expert that says humans are the cause of "climate change" there are 10 more who say we aren't.

Ultimately we may still ask, why can't humans design a perfect society?

People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.

Because animals are property, we consider as "humane treatment" that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.

It wasn't a problem for me drawing humans although I had originally come to the studio with the idea that what I had to offer them was my knowledge in the drawing of animals.

For goodness sake, will they hear, will white people hear what we are trying to say? Please, all we are asking you to do is to recognize that we are humans, too.

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

I live in the rural area of North Georgia, so for me, those are these best days. It has little to do with humans and mostly to do with nature and what surrounds me.

The difference between humans and wild animals is that humans pray before they commit murder.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.

I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch.

I think all humans are essentially proud and I certainly am.