Apart from the intrinsic interest of the complex system of beliefs the Puritans carried with them, their lives give a clue to what it meant at the beginning to be American. And the level of scholarship dealing with them has reached a point where it can address the human condition itself.
With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.
The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.
Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.
As human beings, we're powerfully swayed by how much we feel we're being respected. People comply with agreements if they feel they've been treated fairly and lash out if they don't.
No institution can possibly survive if it needs geniuses or supermen to manage it. It must be organized in such a way as to be able to get along under a leadership composed of average human beings.
Human life is beyond comprehension.
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises.
With all the abundance we have of computers and computing, what is scarce is human attention and time.
The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are.
Every human being is under construction from conception to death.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.
Chiral receptor sites in the human body interact only with drug molecules having the proper absolute configuration, resulting in marked differences in the pharmacological activities of enantiomers.
To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
The human race is a zone of living things that should be defined by tracing its confines.
Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.
