Quotes About Humanity

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

Science is an integral part of culture. It's not this foreign thing, done by an arcane priesthood. It's one of the glories of the human intellectual tradition.

Science and art sometimes can touch one another, like two pieces of the jigsaw puzzle which is our human life, and that contact may be made across the boderline between the two respective domains.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.

Man is unique not because he does science, and his is unique not because he does art, but because science and art equally are expressions of his marvelous plasticity of mind.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

Can it really be said that before the day of our pretentious science, humanity was composed solely of imbeciles and the superstitious?

Man appears to be the missing link between anthropoid apes and human beings.

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over-except when they are different.

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science.

Soon the day will come when science will win victory over error, justice a victory over injustice, and human love a victory over human hatred and ignorance.

I do not believe in God; his existence has been disproved by Science. But in the concentration camp, I learned to believe in men.

The prime goal is to alleviate suffering, and not to prolong life. And if your treatment does not alleviate suffering, but only prolongs life, that treatment should be stopped.

Love is the grounding of our existence as humans and is the basic emotioning in our systemic identity as human beings.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Social science means inventing a certain brand of human we can understand.

We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities... still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.

Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition.

The great question, whether man is of nature or above her.

It is my view that these circumstances indicate the universe was created for man to live in.