Quotes by Human It's human when you get the sense that somebody likes you or is attracted to you - unless you're just completely repulsed by the person - I find that my first reaction is to entertain the idea. Tara Lynne Barr human find person you Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. Gary Wolf answer human time forget Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV. Gary Wolf human just attention long The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. Mae Jemison human difference creativity science The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. Henry Flynt human drive serious culture Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit. Thomas French human pretty always freedom For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Thornton Wilder seem does human dawn We have learned that precision munitions go precisely where they're targeted to go. We've learned that the introduction of human beings in the equation, who can cause the precision munitions to go precisely where they should go, pays a huge dividend. Tommy Franks human who go introduction I've always been really curious about the limits of human capability. Tommy Caldwell human always curious limits The truest statesmanship to which any feeble mortal can ever aspire is the sincere effort to apply the Savior's principles to human government. Trent Franks human effort government principles Coal, oil and natural gas have lit homes and powered machinery for centuries, driving civilization forward. But as human development accelerated, the unsustainability of such energy became apparent. Tulsi Tanti human driving development energy Malaria has long been a devastating and life-threatening global epidemic disease in human history. Tu Youyou human disease long history There's a power in what we hold as artists, and part of that comes with responsibility... to share the human experience and really allow that to be seen. Tracee Ellis Ross human experience responsibility power I cannot think of a greater symbol of human resistance and courage than our Nobel laureate colleague Andrei Sakharov. Torsten Wiesel cannot human think courage Friendships are among the most fundamental of human needs. Tom Rath friendships human most needs It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving. Tom Herman human things comfortable easy Ambition characterizes and distinguishes national officeholders from other kinds of human beings. Tom Cotton national human human-beings ambition Even when they're not causing injury, human-controlled cars are often driven inefficiently, ineptly, antisocially, or in other ways additive to the sum of human misery. Tom Chatfield human even injury misery The waste products in Earth's crust are also the human in this expanded, spectral sense. One's garbage doesn't go 'away' - it just goes somewhere else. Timothy Morton human go garbage earth 'Humankind' is an attempt to think the human species without Nature and without humanity. Timothy Morton human think nature humanity 1234567891011»