#humans

There's a lot of interest from the medical community on how things develop in microgravity, and the hope, later, that is expected to apply to what the changes are in humans as well. ↗

— Linda M. Godwin

#changes #community #develop #expected #hope

Humans have evolved to be exquisitely sensitive to changes in status. ↗

— Keith Henson

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The information that is passed from person to person and from generation to generation is the primary factor that gives humans a competitive advantage over other animals. ↗

— Keith Henson

#competitive #competitive advantage #factor #generation #gives

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans. ↗

— James Herriot

#being #better #better off #feel #gratitude

Challenge a person's beliefs, and you challenge his dignity, standing, and power. And when those beliefs are based on nothing but faith, they are chronically fragile. No one gets upset about the belief that rocks fall down as opposed to up, because all sane people can see it with their own eyes. Not so for the belief that babies are born with original sin or that God exists in three persons or that Ali is the second-most divinely inspired man after Muhammad. When people organize their lives around these beliefs, and then learn of other people who seem to be doing just fine without them--or worse, who credibly rebut them--they are in danger of looking like fools. Since one cannot defend a belief based on faith by persuading skeptics it is true, the faithful are apt to react to unbelief with rage, and may try to eliminate that affront to everything that makes their lives meaningful. ↗

— Steven Pinker

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