Quotes of: To-err-is-human Keyword

The history of using mice to stand in for humans in medical experiments is replete with failures.

Gary Wolf

As contemporary history reminds us we are human to the extent that we are able to chose between alternatives.

John G. D. Clark

Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.

James Gleick

Systematic philosophical and practical anti-intellectualism such as we are witnessing appears to be something truly novel in the history of human culture.

Johan Huizinga

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Luckily for writers - and unluckily for history - every scientific idea creates human conflict.

Scott Westerfeld

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.

Tom Hiddleston

Some claim that computers will, by 2050, achieve human capabilities. Of course, in some respects they already have.

Martin Rees

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Erin Andrews

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.

Charles de Gaulle

I believe that his death and resurrection transformed humanity's relationship with God.

Timothy Radcliffe

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

David McCullough

My trademark at CNN was really asking insightful questions and making sure people are understanding the connections in humanity, and I think that is the core of education.

Soledad O'Brien

For too much of history, we've viewed the world's precious resources - both environmental and human - as things to extract, to make the most of in order to maximize their potential.

Jacqueline Novogratz

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Rodney Stark

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

Tennessee Williams

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Carl Jung

This proves that great lyric poetry can die, be reborn, die again, but will always remain one of the most outstanding creations of the human soul.

Eugenio Montale

I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.

Randy Schekman

I firmly believe that the next great breakthrough in bioscience could come from a 15-year-old who downloads the human genome in Egypt.

Thomas Friedman

We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.

Jonathan Haidt