“ We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Da… Christopher Hitchens
“ Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original… Asa Gray
“ My simple explanation of why we human beings, the most advanced species on earth, cannot find happiness, is this: as we evolve up the ladder of being, we find three things: the first, that the tension… Dr Robin Lincoln Wood
“ Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been on the planet for at least 100,000 years, maybe more. Francis Collins says maybe 100,000. Richard Da… Christopher Hitchens
“ No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man. Henry Fairfield Osborn
“ The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be sway… Robert A. Heinlein
“ An evolutionary perspective of our place in the history of the earth reminds us that Homo sapiens sapiens has occupied the planet for the tiniest fraction of that planet's four and a half thousand mil… Richard E. Leakey
“ The missing link between animals and the real human being is most likely ourselves. Konrad LorenzNothing exists except atoms and space; everything else is opinion. Democritus of Abdera The simple proc… John Cowie
“ We have come to look at our planet as a resource for our species, which is funny when you think that the planet has been around for about five billion years, and Homo sapiens for perhaps one hundred t… Marston Bates
“ The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker. Kenneth Oakley
“ As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so yo… Lewis Thomas
“ Whereas the Agricultural Revolution gave rise to theist religions, the Scientific Revolution gave birth to humanist religions, in which humans replaced gods. Yuval Noah Harari
“ Archaic humans paid for their large brains in two ways. Firstly, they spentmore time in search of food. Secondly, their muscles atrophied. Like a governmentdiverting money from defence to education, h… Yuval Noah Harari
“ After all, when ‘the Lord saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become’ He resolved to ‘wipe from the face of the earth the human race I have created – and with them the animals, the bird… Yuval Noah Harari
“ The biblical account of the origin of the cosmos in Genesis, for example, posits that a god created the physical universe particularly with human beings in mind, and so unsurprisingly placed the Earth… Tim Maudlin
“ If a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can surely be no difficulty in understanding how, under appropriate conditions, a cell may, in the cour… Herbert Spencer
“ This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things. Mark O'Connell
“ O my brave Almighty Human, with the ever-effulgent flow of courage, conscience and compassion, turn yourself into a vivacious humanizer, and start walking with bold footsteps while eliminating racism,… Abhijit Naskar
