All Quotes

Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.
‐‐ Faith Hunter

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Humans are kind of story-propagating creatures. If you think of how we spend our days, think of all the time you spend on entertainment. How much of your entertainment centers around stories? Most pieces of music tell stories. Even hanging out with your friends, you talk, you tell stories to each other. They're all stories. We live in stories.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

Humans are mutants, everything's a mutant - things that evolve.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

Humans are natural-born scientists. When we're born, we want to know why the stars shine. We want to know why the sun rises.
‐‐ Michio Kaku

Humans are nervous, touchy creatures and can be easily offended. Many are deeply insecure. They become focused and energized by taking offence; it makes them feel meaningful and alive.
‐‐ Michael Leunig

Humans are not the fastest or the strongest animals on the planet, but when it comes to survival, we have had the unique advantage of being clever.
‐‐ David Perlmutter

Humans are pretty crafty but will fold quickly in severe cold.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power, in principle, to build societies in which everyone flourishes. But it also creates great dangers because it is not clear that we really understand how to use our potentially devastating powers.
‐‐ David Christian

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

Humans are something very different from animals, and the numbers required to get cloning to work in animals are completely prohibitory with humans.
‐‐ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard

Humans are terrible at predicting the future. We really overestimate what we can do in the short term and underestimate what we can do in the long term... If we can glimpse even a couple of years into the future, even that's difficult to do.
‐‐ Bill Maris

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.
‐‐ Gary Paulsen

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
‐‐ Sylvia Earle

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don't have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge

Humans are very aggressive and scrappy, and go to war at the drop of a hat. However, a standard land war is no longer going to work as it is no longer technically possible.
‐‐ Bruce Sterling

Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent.
‐‐ Hilary Duff

Humans are very imaginative animals.
‐‐ Susumu Tonegawa

Humans are vulnerable and rely on the kindnesses of the earth and the sun; we exist together in a sacred field of meaning.
‐‐ Joy Harjo

Humans are vulnerable, messy little animals and that's normal. And all I want to do is make a space for that in my films.
‐‐ Mike Mills

Humans aren't as good as we should be in our capacity to empathize with feelings and thoughts of others, be they humans or other animals on Earth. So maybe part of our formal education should be training in empathy. Imagine how different the world would be if, in fact, that were 'reading, writing, arithmetic, empathy.'
‐‐ Neil deGrasse Tyson

Humans: become atheists each and all! God will nevertheless welcome you with all his heart!
‐‐ Giovanni Papini

Humans believe so many lies because we aren't aware. We ignore the truth or we just don't see the truth. When we are educated, we accumulate a lot of knowledge, and all that knowledge is just like a wall of fog that doesn't allow us to perceive the truth, what really is.
‐‐ Don Miguel Ruiz

Humans can actually read a landscape, go through a lot of rocks - crack them open, throw them, pick up the next one. Rovers are great - they do amazing science - but it is a lot more tedious process; they go much less far than a human can cover in a day.
‐‐ Ellen Stofan

Humans have a fraught relationship with beasts. They are our companions and our chattel, our family members and our laborers, our household pets and our household pests. We love them and cage them, admire them and abuse them. And, of course, we cook and eat them.
‐‐ Jeffrey Kluger

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling

Humans have a light side and a dark side, and it's up to us to choose which way we're going to live our lives. Even if you start out on the dark side, it doesn't mean you have to continue your journey that way. You always have time to turn it around.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson

Humans have a lot of pro-social tendencies.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

Humans have a proven track record in taking over planes by the use of threats, which work because the legitimate pilots value their own lives and those of their passengers.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.
‐‐ Morena Baccarin

Humans have always used animals to depict ideas about themselves: ideas about their status, about their position in life and society and the world.
‐‐ Alison Goldfrapp

Humans have always used our intelligence and creativity to improve our existence. After all, we invented the wheel, discovered how to make fire, invented the printing press and found a vaccine for polio.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Humans have both the urge to create and destroy.
‐‐ Hayao Miyazaki

Humans have certain properties and characteristics which are intrinsic to them, just as every other organism does. That's human nature.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.
‐‐ Gary Larson

Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Humans have continued to evolve quite a lot over the past ten thousand years, and certainly over 100 thousand. Sure, our biology affects our behavior. But it's unlikely that humans' early evolution is deeply relevant to contemporary psychological questions about dating or the willpower to complete a dissertation.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status.
‐‐ Keith Henson

Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond.
‐‐ Seth Shostak

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

Humans have obviously contributed a great deal of carbon to the atmosphere. So we are warming the planet up.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

Humans like to think of themselves as unusual. We've got big brains that make it possible for us to think, and we think that we have free will and that our behavior can't be described by some mechanistic set of theorems or ideas. But even in terms of much of our behavior, we really aren't very different from other animals.
‐‐ Mark Pagel

Humans live a lot longer than dogs, and we don't suffer any penalty that I can see. We're superior in almost every way - they can smell better. But really, they can't drive cars, they can't do half the things we can. I don't understand why you can't live longer and be really fit.
‐‐ Cynthia Kenyon

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.
‐‐ Robert Anton Wilson

Humans love sex, we need sex, it's how we connect, it reminds us we're alive, it's the third most basic human need, after food and good movie popcorn.
‐‐ Billy Crystal

Humans love truth and justice, and rejoice in ceremonies that honor those qualities. For that sentiment we should indeed thank God.
‐‐ Alfred Day Hershey

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field of vision and gaps in our stream of attention. Sometimes we can't even answer the simplest questions.
‐‐ Gary Wolf