The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the computer. That lets us use our brain power.
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
While that amendment failed, human cloning continues to advance and the breakthrough in this unethical and morally questionable science is around the corner.
I got a job as a human rights and refugees officer, working on youth-based projects. But I realized all the kids I was working with were far more into 'The Daily Show' than the policy briefings.
What a wonderful phenomenon it is, carefully considered, when the human eye, that jewel of organic structures, concentrates its moist brilliance on another human creature!
The avian influenza found in mainland British Columbia poses no significant threat to human health.
Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
I do not regard a broker as a member of the human race.
They are more human and more brotherly towards one another, it seems to me, than we are. But perhaps that is merely because they feel themselves to be more unfortunate than us.
Nature is a brilliant engineer and builder. It knows how to create seashells that are twice as strong as the most resistant ceramics human beings can manufacture, and it produces silk fibers five times stronger than steel. Nature also knows how to create multipurpose forms.
The human comedy is always tragic, but since its ingredients are always the same - dupe, fox, straight, like burlesque skits - the repetition through the ages is comedy.
Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.
During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.
Western business people often don't get the importance of establishing human relationships.
I think I'd take a human butler over a robot one.
We have to choose between a global market driven only by calculations of short-term profit, and one which has a human face.
Our human calendars take little notice of such dates, but nighthawk migrations tell of shortening days and a season's end.
Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.
Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.
