For humans, the Arctic is a harshly inhospitable place, but the conditions there are precisely what polar bears require to survive - and thrive. 'Harsh' to us is 'home' for them. Take away the ice and snow, increase the temperature by even a little, ...
I share the opinion of those of broader vision, who see in the signs of the time hope of humanity for peace.
Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a possibility. Otherwise, why go on?
I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.
In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
The unproductive tillage of human cattle takes that which of right belongs to free labor, and which is necessary for the support and happiness of our own race.
I don't feel that I'm strictly Danish; I don't feel that my sense of humor is strictly Danish or my human sensibility is strictly Danish.
I got interested in palaeontology and vertebrate history - sparked by books on human evolution - then vertebrate evolution. Studying with palaeontologists kindled my interest in fieldwork.
The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.
As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.
Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.
You look at the greatest villains in human history, the fascists, the autocrats, they all wanted people to kneel before them because they don't love themselves enough.
Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.
My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.
It is not tolerable, it is not possible, that from so much death, so much sacrifice and ruin, so much heroism, a greater and better humanity shall not emerge.
I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.
I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.
