#human

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. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#after #another #arrogance #centrality #common

Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information. It is a creative human activity, its geniuses acting more as artists than as information processors. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#activity #artists #creative #geniuses #heartless

Human nature means that institutions at some point lose their sense of mission. That sense of vulnerability drives Pimco. ↗

— Bill Gross

#human #human nature #institutions #lose #means

The New York City Ballet is always about the realm of possibilities, the realm of what the human body can do, what the human spirit can do. And it's about listening, it's about listening to remarkable music and how we respond to that. ↗

— John Guare

#always #ballet #body #city #how

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do. ↗

— John Guare

#body #dealt #extensions #eyes #head

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fool #gives #human #imagination #makes

For the first time in history all the major countries in the world are pushing together to reach this goal... building something in space that is really for all humankind. ↗

— Umberto Guidoni

#countries #first #first time #goal #history

We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#experience #human #maps #mountains #new

Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be. ↗

— Ian Hacking

#every #happens #human #human race #makes

A true portrait should, today and a hundred years from today, the Testimony of how this person looked and what kind of human being he was. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#how #human #human being #hundred #kind