Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
Human beings will line up for miles to buy a bucket of catastrophes, but don't try selling sunshine and light - you'll go broke.
If the aging process is controlled in a similar way in worms and humans, then we can use what we learn about worms to speed our study of higher organisms.
There is a spirit and a need and a man at the beginning of every great human advance. Every one of these must be right for that particular moment in history or nothing happens.
I'd like to play an alien, like from 'Starman' or 'K-PAX,' where it's human. I think I'm destined to play an alien.
The heel is engineering in itself. This little thing that supports the human weight has to have a precise balance.
Faith is God’s way of taking the limitations of our humanity and allowing us the unimaginable privilege of crossing beyond them.
Those with dementia are still people and they still have stories and they still have character and they're all individuals and they're all unique. And they just need to be interacted with on a human level.
So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn.
I believe in integrity. Dogs have it. Humans are sometimes lacking it.
You're trying to be tricky. What's morality?" "It's the difference between what's right and what you can rationalize." "Must be a human thing." "Exactly.
What sets humans apart from animals is that we have to walk around saying how smart we are, and animals just live their lives.
What kind of woman am I attracted to? Really? Can I just say I like what most human beings want?
It's really interesting that, in 'The Avengers,' the character that people relate to is The Hulk, and I think the reason why they relate to The Hulk is because he's fragile and human and faulty.
Scientists are human—they're as biased as any other group. But they do have one great advantage in that science is a self-correcting process.
My hunger for writing will die when I have bled for the humans that never found the strength to find the words themselves
I am human, when people write bad stuff about me it bothers me, but I know that will never end.
All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog.
You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility.
More guns equaling more safety is a slippery slope, and what makes it so is human blood.
Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
