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Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer.
— Yuval Noah Harari
There are no gods, no nations, no money and no human rights, except in our collective imagination.
— Yuval Noah Harari
We are all in flight from the real reality. That is the basic definition of Homo Sapiens.
— John Fowles
Homo sapiens," "homo faber" ... yes, but, first of all, "homo adorans.
— Alexander Schmemann
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP.
— Henry Rollins
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
Think of all the different features from Asian to African to Aboriginal to Caucasian. But we are all within the same species, Homo Sapiens.
— Ray Comfort
Sapiens rule the world because we alone can cooperate flexibly in large numbers, then
— Yuval Noah Harari
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
If we are to rise as real Sapiens, we must work towards spreading education among the masses.
— Abhijit Naskar
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
What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences.
— Estelle Ramey
the historical record makes Homo sapiens look like an ecological serial killer. All
— 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
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.
— Eric Idle
The extinction of the Australian megafauna was probably the first significant mark Homo sapiens left on our planet.
— Yuval Noah Harari
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens
— Katherine Applegate
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Everybody "thinks" - Homo sapiens means "thinking man" - but most people don't "think" very well.
— John Chaffee
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree.
— Stephen Jay Gould
Homo Sapiens and their guns.
— Jack Kirby
Homo sapiens exhibits traits consistent with a long history of polygyny or monogamy, and a relative absence of sperm competition.
— Alan F. Dixson
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
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
— Anthony Storr
70,000 The Cognitive Revolution. Emergence of fictive language. Beginning of history. Sapiens spread out of Africa.
— Yuval Noah Harari
we can congratulate ourselves on the unprecedented accomplishments of modern Sapiens only if we completely ignore the fate of all other animals.
— Yuval Noah Harari
The dinosaur, with its small brain, had survived for a couple of million years; it had done better than Homo sapiens.
— P.D. James
Along with the atom, the personality of the Homo Sapiens has been splitting ...
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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
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
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
This sudden appearance of Homo sapiens is attributable to the rapid mutation of only seventeen brain-building genes. A scant few, really.
— James Rollins
100,000 years ago, at least six human species inhabited the earth. Today there is just one. Us. Homo sapiens.
— Yuval Noah Harari
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
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
It seemed stupid to be pursued on foot like Homo sapiens sapiens of a hundred thousand years before.
— Gregory Benford
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
— Jock Sturges
Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. [ ... ] A bad smell of extinction follows Home sapiens around the world. (37)
— Ronald Wright
We're all homos. Homo sapiens.
— Michael Scott
If the curtain is indeed about to drop on Sapiens history,
— Yuval Noah Harari
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
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies.
— Patricia Marx
The most satisfactory definition of man from the scientific point of view is probably Man the Tool-maker.
— Kenneth Oakley