Quotes About Humanity

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Science fiction is very well suited to asking philosophical questions; questions about the nature of reality, what it means to be human, how do we know the things that we think we know.

Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

Yoga, an ancient but perfect science, deals with the evolution of humanity. This evolution includes all aspects of one's being, from bodily health to self-realization.

Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?

Combine science and humanities.

It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

Man's Place in Nature.

The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.

This world was once a fluid haze of light, Till toward the centre set the starry tides, And eddied into suns, that wheeling cast The planets: then the monster, then the man.

The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.

The human heart concerns us more than the poring into microscopes, and is larger than can be measured by the pompous figures of the astronomer.

It is only too clear that man is not at home within this universe, and yet that he is not good enough to deserve a better.

What is needed in the present plight of mankind is not more science but a change of heart that shall move mankind to devote to constructive and peaceful purposes.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

There seems scarcely any limit to what could be done in the way of producing a good world, if only men would use science wisely.

If we have optimism without empathy then it doesn't matter how much we master the secrets of science. We're not really solving problems, we're just working on puzzles.

And if humanity is the last war, then I am the battlefield.

Human was the music, natural was the static.

Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

The more of us that feel the universe, the better off we will be in this world.