Quotes About Humanity

Someday in the next thirty years, very quietly one day we will cease to be the brightest things on Earth. –JAMES MCALEAR

Claude Shannon, the father of information theory, once declared, "I visualize a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I'm rooting for the machines.

The Fate of the Earth, points

As the great biologist Thomas H. Huxley said in 1863, "The question of all questions for humanity, the problem which lies behind all others and is more interesting than any of them, is that of the determination of man's place in Nature and his relation to the Cosmos.

Bertrand Russell once lamented "that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought or feeling, can preserve a life beyond the grave; that all the labors of the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius, are destined to extinction in the vast death of the solar system; and the whole temple of Man's achievement must inevitably be buried beneath the debris of a universe in ruins…

Given that humanity must one day flee the solar system to the nearby stars to survive, or perish, the question is: how will we get there? The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is over 4 light-years away. Conventional chemical propulsion rockets, the workhorses of the current space program, barely reach 40,000 miles per hour. At that speed it would take 70,000 years just to visit the nearest star.

Las raíces de la violencia: la riqueza sin trabajar, el placer sin conciencia, el conocimiento sin carácter, el comercio sin moralidad, la ciencia sin humanidad, el culto sin sacrificio, la política sin principios.

Humanity is like someone whose outstretched arms are reaching for the stars but whose feet are mired in the mud.

Acaso los robots heredarán la Tierra? Sí, pero serán nuestros hijos. MARVIN MINSKY

Mahatma Gandhi escribió: Las raíces de la violencia: la riqueza sin trabajar, el placer sin conciencia, el conocimiento sin carácter, el comercio sin moralidad, la ciencia sin humanidad, el culto sin sacrificio, la política sin principios.

Life may seem pointless if we are fated to spend it staring stupidly at our ultra-intelligent progeny as they try to describe their ever more spectacular discoveries in baby-talk that we can understand.

I theorize that humans are different from animals because we understand time. We have temporal consciousness in addition to spatial and social consciousness. The latest part of the brain to evolve is the prefrontal cortex, which lies just behind our forehead. It is constantly running simulations of the future.

Finally, the basic principles of transhumanism, that humanity should not have to endure "nasty, brutish, and short" lives, when science can relieve suffering by enhancing the human race, were first clearly laid out by Julian Huxley in 1957.

Si la imaginación del hombre es tan débil que no acierta a inventar un garabato que diferencie claramente el cero de la O, Jacinto, todo ha de ser confusión, convéncete, porque hay mucha gente interesada en armarla (la confusión) porque de ella (de la confusión) sacan tajada los vivos, ¿te das cuenta?, y la única oportunidad de convivencia que se nos dio a los humanos, la Torre de Babel, la desperdiciamos bien tontamente.

Pero todo el mundo sabe que la vida no vale la pena de ser vivida. En el fondo, no ignoraba que morir a los treinta años o a los setenta importa poco, pues, naturalmente, en ambos casos, otros hombres y otras mujeres vivían y así durante miles de años. En suma, nada podría ser más claro. Era siempre yo quien moriría, ahora o dentro de veinte años.

Very young children are not afraid to express what they feel. They are so loving that if they perceive love, they melt into love. They are not afraid to love at all. That is the description of a normal human being.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us. There is no truth to find.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

It's not true for the plants or the animals. It's not true for the stars or the trees, or for the rest of nature. It's only true for humans.

Humans use fear to domesticate humans, and our fear increases with each experience of injustice.

Confess. Admit that you've sinned—that you have harmed your own human being in some way. Repent—that is, make an agreement to stop. Do penance, which means to offer yourself forgiveness. Modify your behavior from that moment forward.

All of humanity is searching for truth, justice, and beauty. We are on an eternal search for the truth because we only believe in the lies we have stored in our mind. We are searching for justice because in the belief system we have, there is no justice. We search for beauty because it doesn't matter how beautiful a person is, we don't believe that person has beauty. We keep searching and searching, when everything is already within us.

We poison ourselves with judgment and fear, and then we spread the toxin to living beings all around us. To heal ourselves requires self-love, the white magic that works wonders on the dream of humanity.

we are talking about relationships in hell. We are talking about the mental disease that exists on this planet.