I'm simply trying to tell the truth about human behaviour as I see it.
If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.
We have rudiments of reverence for the human body, but we consider as nothing the rape of the human mind.
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
We are beginning to see intimations of this in the implantation of computer devices into the human body.
Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.
The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.
The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
Human capacity for not thinking about what we're doing is infinite.
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity.
The gift of broadcasting is, without question, the lowest human capacity to which any man could attain.
When tillage begins, other arts follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of human civilization.
Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.
No human civilization could ever sever our dependence on photosynthesis.
It is necessary to name the enemy of human civilization, and this enemy is international terrorism associated with religious fundamentalism and religious intolerance.
It is only through books that we partake of the great harvest that is human civilization across the ages.
The challenge for America is: can we become a multicultural, multiracial democracy? It would be historic. It would be America's greatest contribution to human civilization.
I would not want to see any relaxation of the law prohibiting human cloning.
I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.
