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Quotes About Humans

The humans build their stupid fence to keep us out, but that is nothing. The sky is our fence!" Human leapt upward—startlingly high, for his legs were powerful. "Look how the fence throws me back down to the ground!
~ Orson Scott Card
And Bear absolutely refused to eat humans while they were still alive, with the feeble excuse that when they weren't dead they made too much noise and moved around too much. To Yaga, that was just another proof of Bear's laziness. Godhood was assigned to the most unworthy people.
~ Orson Scott Card
Ender marveled at his mind, this small raman. How few humans were able to grasp this idea, or let it extend beyond the narrow confines of their tribe, their family, their nation.
~ Orson Scott Card
It's the most charming thing about humans. You are all so sure that the lesser animals are bleeding with envy because they didn't have the good fortune to be born homo sapiens.
~ Orson Scott Card
There was no memory of pain or fear, though. What the hive-queen felt was sadness, a sense of resignation. She had not thought these words as she saw the humans coming to kill, but it was in words that Ender understood her: The humans did not forgive us, she thought. We will surely die.
~ Orson Scott Card
Belki bizim zaman?m?z?n sorunu da budur Bay Dunworthy. Kurucular? Maisry, piskoposun elçisi ve Sir Bloet ne de olsa. Roche gibi kal?p yard?m etmeye çal??an bütün insanlar vebaya yakalan?p öldüler.
~ Connie Willis
Ive seen the meanness of humans till I dont know why God aint put out the sun and gone away.
~ Cormac McCarthy
So many questions. Humans asked them about everything, but they usually weren't half as good at finding the answers.
~ Cornelia Funke
Perhaps I am a foolish, fond old dragon who never learns from his own mistakes. But I have to believe that the humans and the dragons are capable of living together. I have to hope that the impossible can be possible. I have to trust in the boy and hope for the best...
~ Cressida Cowell
OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!
~ Cressida Cowell
B.F. Skinner, the world-famous psychologist, proved through his experiments that an animal rewarded for good behaviour will learn much more rapidly and retain what it learns far more effectively than an animal punished for bad behaviour. Later studies have shown that the same applies to humans. By criticising, we do not make lasting changes and often incur resentment.
~ Dale Carnegie
Much of the attention paid to CRISPR these days involves its potential to make inheritable (germline) edits in humans that will be passed along to all the cells of all of our future descendants and have the potential to alter our species. These edits are done in reproductive cells or early-stage embryos. This is what occurred with the CRISPR baby twins in China in 2018, and it is the controversial topic that I will discuss later in this book.
~ Walter Isaacson
This isn't about replacing human thinking with machine thinking. Rather, in the era of cognitive systems, humans and machines will collaborate to produce better results, each bringing their own superior skills to the partnership
~ Walter Isaacson
It's good to have strong opinions about gene engineering in humans, but it's even better if you know what a gene is.
~ Walter Isaacson
There is in all humans, however, a desire and a deeply felt duty to worship a more intimate God
~ Walter Isaacson
What none of the participants discussed was a longer-range prospect: using CRISPR to engineer inheritable edits in humans that would make our children, and all of our descendants, less vulnerable to virus infections. These genetic improvements could permanently alter the human race.
~ Walter Isaacson
Santa Monica's only walkable if death is no hurdle. The air's the wrong colour. People put sunglasses on their dogs. It's a hideous place where humans are not welcome and those who stay suffer eight kinds of brain damage.
~ Warren Ellis
I have met people who insist that humans taste like veal. And one woman from Canada who will swear up and down that people, like most other things, taste a bit like chicken. But she was crazy. And also Canadian.
~ Warren Ellis
All this reinforces the concept that Edward O. Wilson dubbed biophilia, which holds that humans are hardwired to find particular scenes of nature calming and restorative.
~ Charles Montgomery
From Aftermath: Dr. Oldfield "Single celled and oceanic forms will presumably survive but it might make life impossible for humans." President Saul: "Actually, that tends to be my primary concern. Sponges and oysters will have to take care of themselves.
~ Charles Sheffield
Crowd folly, the tendency of humans, under some circumstances, to resemble lemmings, explains much foolish thinking of brilliant men and much foolish behavior.
~ Charles T. Munger
We humans are a most delightful mélange of energy patterns or selves.
~ Hal Stone
The scientists reviewing McDonald's paper were fine with a discussion of a frankly tenuous hypothesis that ocean acidification could affect the frequencies of blue whale song, but would not, he felt, be open to an explanation that would be near the top of the list were this the behavior of humans, rather than blue whales: cultural drive propagating around the world.
~ Hal Whitehead
Technology has changed the environment of humans and the ecology of Earth. It has
~ Hal Whitehead