Quotes About Humanity

The human spirit must prevail over technology.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.

Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'

As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me.

You know how to split atoms, how to send explorers to the moon, how to splice genes, but you don't know how people ought to live.

Published papers may omit important steps and the memory of men of science, even the greatest, is sadly fallible.

Forty thousand years of evolution and we've barely even tapped the vastness of human potential.

It is a real service to humanity and the world to be a good programmer, particularly if you design great products. You make is easier for everybody, everybody has less headaches.

Science may carry us to Mars, but it will leave the earth peopled as ever by the inept.

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?

For those who want some proof that physicists are human, the proof is in the idiocy of all the different units which they use for measuring energy.

Science cannot destroy the consciousness of freedom, without which there is no morality and no art, but it can refute it.

Politics without principles, Education without character, Science without humanity, and Commerce without morality are not only useless, but also positively dangerous.

We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

The science about life is very optimistic. Every second, four people in the world die, and six are born. This is optimistic.

Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men.

For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works.

History is the science of people.

The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.