#human

It is a distortion, with something profoundly disloyal about it, to picture the human being as a teetering, fallible contraption, always needing watching and patching, always on the verge of flapping to pieces. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#always #being #disloyal #distortion #fallible

Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#before #beings #chance #discovering #ever

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#human #human beings #i #kinder #like

The novelist must look on humanity without partiality or prejudice. His sympathy, like that of the historian, must be unbounded, and untainted by sect or party. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#historian #humanity #like #look #must

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. ↗

— Huston Smith

#comes #constitutes #continue #everything #extend

I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. ↗

— Huston Smith

#am #assumed #form #god #had

The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years. ↗

— Ian Smith

#had #humans #into #many #organs

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#anxious #bless #blessing #content #family

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault. ↗

— Joseph Smith, Jr.

#am #charged #doing #fault #frailty

You couldn't have human society without language. ↗

— John M. Smith

#human society #language #society #without #you