Quotes About Human

His humans were happy, yes; but to Prometheus such a safe, unchallenged, and unchallenging existence had no zest to it.

I believe one of the greatest human failings is to prefer to be right than to be effective. Political correctness is always obsessed with how right it is without thinking how effective it might be. I do relish transgression and I deeply and instinctively distrust conformity and orthodoxy.

Ignorance of nature's ways led people in ancient times to invent gods to lord it over every aspect of human life.

If we find the answer to that (why the universe exists), it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason. For then we would know the mind of God.

Descartes, for instance, in order to preserve the idea of free will, asserted that the human mind was something different from the physical world and did not follow its laws. In his view a person consists of two ingredients, a body and a soul. Bodies are nothing but ordinary machines, but the soul is not subject to scientific law.

Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology, we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics.

I would like to speculate a little on the development of life in the universe, and in particular on the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include the human race, even though much of its behaviour throughout history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid the survival of the species.

it is surely better to strive for a complete understanding than to despair of the human mind.

why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason – for then we would know the mind of God.

We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.

I think it is legitimate to take a broader view and include externally transmitted information, as well as DNA, in the evolution of the human race.

Se descobríssemos a resposta para isso [a razão pela qual o Universo existe], seria o triunfo derradeiro da razão humana — pois aí conheceríamos a mente de Deus.

El afán por descubrir alimenta la creatividad en todos los campos, no sólo en la ciencia. Si llegáramos a la meta, el espíritu humano se marchitaría y moriría.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve.

science must be understood as a social phenomenon, a gutsy, human enterprise, not the work of robots programed to collect pure information.

Creative thought in science is exactly this - not a mechanical collection on of facts and intuition, bias, and insight from other fields. Science, at its best, interposes human judgement and ingenuity upon all proceedings. It is, after all (although we sometimes forget it), practiced by humans.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

When it came to the dark fuckery of the human heart, there seemed to be no limit.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

He knew as well as we in our own world do that the road to hell is paved with good intentions--but he also knew that, for human beings, good intentions are sometimes all there are. Angels may be safe from damnation, but human beings are less fortunate things, and for them hell is always close.

Beyond the reach of human rage A drop of hell, a touch of strange ...

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.