Quotes of: Human-species Keyword

Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die.

Junaid e Mustafa

When viewed at the next quantum level of perspective, from which the Earth is seen as an organism and humans are seen as microorganisms, the human species looks like a menace to the planet. In fact, the human race is looking a lot like a disease -- c...

The Humanure Handbook: A Guide to Composting Human Manure

The essence of all human rights is the equality of the entire human race, which the Qur’ān assumed, affirmed, and confirmed. It obliterated all distinctions among men except goodness and virtue (taqwā): The reason the Qur’ān emphasizes essenti...

Major Themes of the Qur'an

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

M.F. Moonzajer

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Andreas Gursky

Just as we reject racism, sexism, ageism, and heterosexism, we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race, sex, age, or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership i...

Gary L. Francione

The evolution of animal behavior does constitute a learning process, but it is learning by the species, not by the individual, and the fruits of this learning process are encoded in DNA.

How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality

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...

Seth Lloyd

Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human lifetime. Interstellar travel is therefore, in my view, an enterprise for post-humans, evolved from our species not via ...

Martin Rees

Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The eart...

Edward O. Wilson

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

Daniel Keys Moran

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Buzz Aldrin

It was the first and only fight of his childhood, but it had taught him a valuable lesson about human nature, how people were just another species of animal, and like any animal, from the biggest predators, to the smallest scavengers, most human bein...

Aftermath

Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species, culture, family, and by the past in general. . . . It is rare for a human being to have free will. . . . (140)

The Wisdom of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide by Ravi Ravindra

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how mono...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Our species is angry on a deep level. We know something has been wrong for a long time. We are tired of being thrown the scraps. This is primal, guttural; the scream of an exhausted humanity who will not take no for an answer.

Unspirituality: Permission to Be Human

The offspring of nationalist thinking too often expresses itself in exclusionary and passively-violent legal policies, and then sadly, through militarism, which becomes manifest on the endless blood-soaked borders and battlefields of humanity's great...

Voice of Reason

Anyway, it's a good thing we're human. We design business spreadsheets, paint programs, and word processing equipment. So that tells you where we're at as a species. What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the hu...

Douglas Coupland

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species fro...

Anthony Fauci