#humanity

I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#humanity #i #i see #make #reflect

In disposition the Negro is joyous, flexible, and indolent; while the many nations which compose this race present a singular diversity of intellectual character, of which the far extreme is the lowest grade of humanity. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#compose #disposition #diversity #extreme #far

Science knows no country, because knowledge belongs to humanity, and is the torch which illuminates the world. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#belongs #country #humanity #illuminates #knowledge

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#science #space #science

It can be argued that the computer is humanity’s attempt to replicate the human brain. This is perhaps an unattainable goal. However, unattainable goals often lead to outstanding accomplishment. ↗

— Ammaar Shaukat Reshi

#computers #humanity #technology #science

Life is a mess, Rose said. You can fix the mess human beings make, Rose said, But you can't fix the mess being human is. ↗

— Tom Spanbauer

#life

I had to wonder what sadistic pleasure and entertainment human suffering must provide to the divine game players who decided the fate of their pawns in a board game they made of life. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #memories-with-maya #suffering-of-humanity #transhumanism

Every man must have a philosophy of life, for everyone must have a standard by which to measure his conduct. And philosophy is nothing but a standard by which to measure. ↗

— B.R. Ambedkar

#philosophy-of-life #life

حين يقوم أفراد مجتمع بتحقيق مصالحهم بعيداً عن مبادئهم فإن الثمن الذي يدفعونه هو انحطاط أخلاقهم. ↗

— عبد الكريم بكار

#life-and-living #المجتمع #life

To be ethical is to endeavor to find one's proper place in the larger scheme of things rather than to seek to assert human superiority over the natural world. ↗

— Gary Steiner

#humanity #morality #speciesism #life