Ripley: You know, Burke, I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
Species diversity can be thought of as an insurance policy against today's environmental change and tomorrow's new evolutionary challenges.
The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.
When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.
War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.
The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
Democracy is eternal and human. It dignifies the human being; it respects humanity.
Human beings are interested in the human condition.
It is easy to be born, it is difficult to be a human being.
A big crowd, but not a human being in sight!
[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowled...
If my mother's intention in whole or in part was to ensure that I never had to suffer any indignity or embarrassment for being a Jew, then she succeeded well enough. And in any case there were enough intermarriages and 'conversions' on both sides of ...
Historians are wont to name technological advances as the great milestones of culture, among them the development of the plow, the discovery of smelting and metalworking, the invention of the clock, printing press, steam power, electric engine, light...
The many meanings of 'evolution' are frequently exploited by Darwinists to distract their critics. Eugenie Scott recommends: 'Define evolution as an issue of the history of the planet: as the way we try to understand change through time. The present ...
It is clear that this essential Christian doctrine gives a new value to human nature, to human history and to human life which is not to be found in the other great oriental religions.
Free expression is the base of human rights, the root of human nature and the mother of truth. To kill free speech is to insult human rights, to stifle human nature and to suppress truth.
Relativism should be confronted where it damages fundamental human rights, because we're not relativists if we believe that the human being should be at the centre of society and the rights of every human being should be respected.
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
