“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Humanity
Mark Twain on Humanity
“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.” Continue reading
Martin Luther King Jr. on Science
“Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.” Continue reading
George C. Marshall on Peace
“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.” Continue reading
Stephen Jay Gould on Science
“The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.” Continue reading
Stephen Hawking on Computers
“I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.” Continue reading
Cicero on Humanity and Community
“We were born to unite with our fellow men, and to join in community with the human race.” Continue reading
Neil Armstrong on Mystery
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” Continue reading
Frank Borman on Humanity and Progress
“Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” Continue reading
Frank Zappa on the Mind
“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” Continue reading
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