The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness
All war presupposes human weakness and seeks to exploit it.
If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.
I'd love a super human memory. My memory has never been good.
It's the only way we can get out of being so human-centered: to remain attached to something other than humans.
Each human being exists because there's something they have to offer for the evolution of the universe that only they can fulfill.
The ones who destroy monsters have always been humans.
I've always painted pictures in which human love floods my colors.
My definition of genius is not being that person the actual human is a genius, but it's a person that just allows God to work through them.
[About reading Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, age 14, in the back seat of his parents' sedan. I almost threw up. I got physically ill when I learned that ospreys and peregrine falcons weren't raising chicks because of what people were spraying on bugs at their farms and lawns. This was the first time I learned that humans could impact the environment with chemicals. [That a corporation would create a product that didn't operate as advertised] was shocking in a way we weren't inured to.
We must be free for the truth; and conversely, to be able to be open toward the truth may be our deepest freedom as human creatures.
The game of science can accurately be described as a never-ending insult to human intelligence.
Animals obviously ranked higher in Michaela's world view than humans. Having seen some of the things humans were capable of, Elena couldn't disagree.
Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.
I believe there is only one race - the human race.
I've been opposed to human cloning from the very beginning.
A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).
To say that a being who is sentient has no interest in continuing to live is like saying that a being with eyes has no interest in continuing to see. Death—however “humane”—is a harm for humans and nonhumans alike.
Most of the food crops raised in the world today are fed to livestock destined for slaughter for us to eat, and most of the water used is used to raise the food crops that are fed to those animals. It has been estimated that, because of the extraordinary amount of grain it takes to raise food animals, if we reduced the amount of meat we eat by only ten percent, that would free up enough grain to feed all the starving humans in the world. So when we choose to eat meat instead of vegetables, we are choosing to take food away from others who are hungry.
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and cannot live in peace with humans.