Homo Quotes
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Homo Quotes & Sayings
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Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.
— Yuval Noah Harari
We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.
— John Fowles
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If human is capable of conducting genocide,no need for an asteroid to wipe out dinosaurs. — Toba Beta
Homo Cannot Erectus
— Adham T. Fusama
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Homo sapiens," "homo faber" ... yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.
— Alexander Schmemann
Every achievement, every step forward in knowledge, is the consequence of courage, of toughness towards oneself, of sincerity to oneself
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
— Henry Rollins
The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis ... surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies.
— H.L. Mencken
There seems to me to be absolutely no limit to the inanity and credulity of the human race. Homo Sapiens! Homo idioticus!
— Arthur Conan Doyle
When younger, I thought one of the particulars of being "Homo sapiens" was to communicate. I have not learned not to, though I am cautious when I try.
— Nikki Giovanni
Watch, hell,' Walt said. 'This is strip poker. What kind of homo wants to sit around and watch four guys get naked?
— David Sedaris
Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise it's too homo for them to handle.
— Megan McCafferty
This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.
— Mark O'Connell
What's unnatural is homophobia. Homo sapiens is the only species in all of nature that responds with hate to homosexuality.
— Alex Sanchez
Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.
— Will Herberg
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete.
— Sugata Mitra
The great thing about homo sapiens is that we've got a brain that can override our instincts. If we want it to.
— Graeme Simsion
It's time we put the bud back in Buddha and the sap back in Homo sapiens, and end this age of folly - this folly-age!
— S.J. Cameron
Miss Leary, do you mean to insinuate that I should go encouraging homo-sex-uality amongst these corpses?
— William Lindsay Gresham
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
— Ambrose Bierce
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley
Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition.
— Alan F. Dixson
Homo is a common name to all men.
— William Shakespeare
Seventy-plus years in the Marxist-Leninist laboratory gave rise to a new man: Homo sovieticus. Some see
— Svetlana Alexievich
the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer. All
— Yuval Noah Harari
we might fiddle with Homo sapiens to such an extent that we would no longer be Homo sapiens. Bionic
— Yuval Noah Harari
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
— Patricia Marx
Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.
— John Chaffee
Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting ...
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens.
— P.D. James
We don't know who we are or how to function, much less how to bloom. Blind nature. Homo sapiens. Who's kidding whom?
— Jeanette Winterson
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
— Anthony Storr
What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
— Estelle Ramey
Homo Sapiens and their guns.
— Jack Kirby
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
— Stephen Jay Gould
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Wes Jackson calls our species "homo the homogenizer.")
— Michael Pollan
How about Pithecanthropus Erectus? Was it really he who ate the apple? Or was it Homo Pekiniensis?
— Bertrand Russell
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
— Katherine Applegate
The extinction of the Australian megafauna was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet.
— Yuval Noah Harari
No matter how inured you get to atrocities, you're still always stunned and shocked by how cruel and wasteful Homo sapiens can be.
— Steven Pinker
Your faith in Homo technologicus -the Tinkering Man- has one fatal flaw. It offers you no escape clause.
— David Brin
This sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.
— James Rollins
The Latin proverb, homo homini lupus - man is a wolf to man - ... is a libel on the wolf, which is a gentle animal with other wolves.
— Geoffrey Gorer
Our minds hurtled outward in all directions. We became absurdly creative, Homo artifactus, intolerant of bare cave walls and naked clay pots.
— Natalie Angier
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If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
— Henry Rollins
Here's the bottom line. I don't care if it was Kinko the Klown or a guy in an Uncle Sam suit on stilts or Hubert the Happy Homo. If
— Stephen King
It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.
— Gregory Benford
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
— Jock Sturges
We are, after all, homo economicus.
— Charles Stross
Intelligent design becomes the basic principle of life? Homo sapiens is replaced by superhumans?
— Yuval Noah Harari
No existing form of anthropoid ape is even remotely related to the stock which has given rise to man.
— Henry Fairfield Osborn
The day we stop playing will be the day we stop learning.
— William Glasser
We ought to call ourselves Homo clamorans. Noisemaking man.
— Stephen Baxter
Two million years ago, genetic mutations resulted in the appearance of a new human species called Homo erectus.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Then again. Maybe the simple diagnosis of either hetero or homo is misleading. Maybe there's just sexuality, and it's bendable and unpredictable.
— David Levithan
We're all homos. Homo sapiens.
— Michael Scott
Prophets of doom warn that sooner or later Homo sapiens will exhaust the raw materials and energy of planet Earth. And what will happen then?
— Yuval Noah Harari
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
— Jock Sturges
Homo Creator's testimony to the sound construction and fine finish of Deus Creatus. A popular form of abjection, having an element of pride.
— Ambrose Bierce
What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?
— Richard Wilbur
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
— Robert A. Heinlein
