Quotes About Humanity

En cierto modo, la especie humana necesita mejorar sus cualidades mentales y físicas para tratar con el mundo cada vez más complejo que lo rodea y afrontar nuevos desafíos como los viajes espaciales. Y también necesita aumentar su complejidad si los sistemas biológicos deben mantenerse por delante de los sistemas electrónicos. Por el momento, los ordenadores nos aventajan en velocidad, pero no muestran signos de inteligencia.

Extenderse al espacio tendrá un efecto aún mayor. Cambiará completamente el futuro de la especie humana, y tal vez determinará que tengamos o no algún futuro. No resolverá ninguno de nuestros problemas inmediatos en el planeta Tierra, pero nos proporcionará una nueva perspectiva sobre ellos y hará que miremos hacia fuera en lugar de hacia dentro. Con suerte, nos unirá para enfrentar el desafío común.

The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race….It would take off on its own, and re-design itself at an ever increasing rate. Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn't compete, and would be superseded

Ich glaube, es gibt keinen wesentlichen Unterschied zwischen dem, was ein biologisches Gehirn leisten kann und dem, was ein Computer leisten kann...Künstliche Intelligenz könnte die grossartigste Idee der Menschheit werden. Aber sie könnte auch unserer letzte sein.

That is what it's about—being a child of God. Ethnicity (no Jew or Greek), class (no slave or free), and gender (no male and female) count neither for you nor against you. We are all children of God.

The creed was originally about the fact that race, class, and gender are typically used to divide the human race into us and them to the advantage of us. It aimed to declare that there is no us, no them. We are all children of God. It was about solidarity, not cultural obliteration.

Everyone agrees that the three dyads in verse 28 are its central feature, its basic claim. Baptism exposes the follies by which most of us live, defined by the other, who we are not. It declares the unreality of race, class, and gender: there is no Jew or Greek, no slave or free, no male and female. We may not all be the same, but we are all one, each one a child of God.

We are storytelling animals, and cannot bear to acknowledge the ordinariness of our daily lives

There are no shortcuts to moral insight. Nature is not intrinsically anything that can offer comfort or solace in human terms -- if only because our species is such an insignificant latecomer in a world not constructed for us. So much the better. The answers to moral dilemmas are not lying out there, waiting to be discovered. They reside, like the kingdom of God, within us -- the most difficult and inaccessible spot for any discovery or consensus.

Our planet is not fragile at its own timescale and we, pitiful latecomers in the last microsecond of our planetary year, are stewards of nothing in the long run.

If the misery of our poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Why should our nastiness be the baggage of an apish past and our kindness uniquely human? Why should we not seek continuity with other animals for our 'noble' traits as well?

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes, they win.

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I'm tired, boss. Tired of being on the road, lonely as a sparrow in the rain. I'm tired of never having me a buddy to be with to tell me where we's going to, coming from, or why. Mostly, I'm tired of people being ugly to each other. I'm tired of all the pain I feel and hear in the world...every day. There's too much of it. It's like pieces of glass in my head...all the time. Can you understand? ...

What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

Adults are the real monsters.

Life is short and pain is long and we were all put on this earth to help each other.

I don't like people. They fuck me up