Quotes 701 till 720 of 1426.
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Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors.
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Music is the effort we make to explain to ourselves how our brains work. We listen to Bach transfixed because this is listening to a human mind.
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My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor.
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My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
Crash (1973) -
My children know not to shout before Mummy has warmed herself into something human with her coffee.
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My first inclination is to be a bit skeptical about the claims that human-produced carbon dioxide is the direct contributor to global warming.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.
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Nanotechnology in medicine is going to have a major impact on the survival of the human race.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
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Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
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Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
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