Quotes About Humanity

Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.

Of power does Man possess no particle: Of knowledge-just so much as show that still It ends in ignorance on every side.

I think we tried to make a film [Moon] that was about human beings as opposed to going from one special effects set piece to the next one, which is what a lot of science fiction films these days do.

Science is not inherently good.

Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.

A science fiction writer should try to combine the intimately human with the grandly cosmic.

Killing one man is murder. Killing millions is a statistic

There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space.

It's kind of a misnomer about science fiction that science fiction is about anything other than people. It's about people doing stuff, sometimes doing extraordinary stuff.

The races are in fact disappearing, although the process will require thousands of years at present rates

My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.

Our science, so called, is always more barren and mixed with error than our sympathies.

The monkey is an organized sarcasm upon the human race.

My job, one of them, in science, was to find the gods inside of us.

Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension.

Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

Just like the cosmonauts and their pee plants, all we have is each other.

The best sci-fi stories use the fantastical to remind us of the reality of who we are today, the hope of who we may become tomorrow, and the shame of who we were yesterday.

Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.

For a brief review of our history to date shows us in a very singular role:that of serial killers.

Mankind without Earth is Humanity without a Home

The greatest gift you can leave to humanity is the beautiful trace you left behind yourself that invites people to reason, science and peace!

Science fiction is when we see into the future of our planet, fantasy is when we believe humanity will survive.