Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs.
I grew up with actors, so I never thought of them as anything but human - sort of horribly, inextricably human.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Music is a fantastic peacekeeper of the world, it is integral to harmony, and it is a required fundamental of human emotion.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
The object of pure physics is the unfolding of the laws of the intelligible world; the object of pure mathematics that of unfolding the laws of human intelligence.
The human mind inherently seeks intelligible order. Thus the conviction that such an order exists to be found is a crucial assumption.
All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
Having lots of human interaction online and during shows is very important to me.
The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence.
Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.
Mercury is a potent toxin that interferes with the human nervous system. Reducing this hazard will be a major public health breakthrough.
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will be eventual communication between the two species.
I love when I dive into lyrics that give me human complexity and intricate narrative.
Ridley Scott's 'Prometheus' is a magnificent science-fiction film, all the more intriguing because it raises questions about the origin of human life and doesn't have the answers.
Introspection and preserved writings give us far more insight into the ways of past humans than we have into the ways of past dinosaurs. For that reason, I'm optimistic that we can eventually arrive at convincing explanations for these broadest patterns of human history.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Humor is everywhere in that there's irony in just about anything a human does.
The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.
I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'
