Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
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Related Evolution explains our biological evolution, but human beings are very unique creatures. As the Dobz... DONALD JOHANSON Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example... A. P. J. ABDUL KALAM The biological task of science is to provide the fully developed human individual with as perfect a ... ERNST MACH Materialist philosophies that treat human beings as machines or animals possess the high ground in o... MARVIN OLASKY The difference between machines and human beings is that human beings can be reproduced by unskilled... ARTHUR C. CLARKE Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of l... TOM ROBBINS Listen, and you will realize that we are made not from cells or from atoms. We are made from stories... MIA COUTO Each day has a story to - deserves to be told, because we are made of stories. I mean, scientists sa... EDUARDO GALEANO This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted ... AARON KLUG The peer-reviewed science also shows that human beings do not react in the same way as rats or other... DAVID BOOTHE The long-term vision is to replace, repair and regenerate failing tissues and organs with the materi... WILLIAM WAGNER A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market ex... HA-JOON CHANG We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA The crucial differences which distinguish human societies and human beings are not biological. They ... RUTH BENEDICT If we're going to achieve compassion in the machines and also feel safe with the machines, to ra... DAVID HANSON Bringing world leaders together as human beings rather than political machines is very important. JAMES P. GORMAN If certain bacteria, fungi, or algae inch across something made of copper, they absorb copper atoms,... SAM KEAN While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin... ALICE HOGAN As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. GEORGE ORWELL This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs. ANTHONY ATALA This is one small step in our ability to go forward in replacing damaged tissues and organs. DR. ANTONY ATALA Adult stem cells are also problematic, as they are difficult to identify, purify and grow, and simpl... ELIOT ENGEL Our technology, our machines, is part of our humanity. We created them to extend ourselves, and that... RAY KURZWEIL It amazes me that organs that piss/ Can give human beings such perfect bliss. IRVING LAYTON Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW it offends the continuum of human dignity to treat people like the appendage of highly efficient mac... SIMON HEAD During this kind of highly structured, self-motivated hard work, Csikszentmihalyi wrote, we regularl... JANE MCGONIGAL In time, almost all men and women will become worthless as producers of goods, food, services, and m... KURT VONNEGUT I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in tha... CARL BARKS I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES In our home we grew up thinking we were Mormons first and human beings second. SONIA JOHNSON Science ignores the spiritual realm because it is not amenable to scientific analysis. As importantl... BRUCE LIPTON Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology,... KAREN ARMSTRONG People need to realize we're human beings too, not the animals they think we are. AMARAL DUCLONA The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small num... AUGUST KROGH The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human ... DONALD ERVIN KNUTH THEY WILL TRY TO TELL YOU THAT YOU’RE MADE UP OF ATOMS AND MOLECULES. THEY DON’T KNOW A DAM... VANSHIKA DHYANI Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. N... JOHN F. KENNEDY When we talk about stem cells, we are actually talking about a complicated series of things, includi... DAVID BALTIMORE The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other a... H. L. MENCKEN The kind of support the down-and-out need is the kind we have always refused them, the kind that wou... DONELLA MEADOWS Are you really surprised by the endurance of religion? What ideology is likely to be more durable th... SAM HARRIS You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stories. ... WILLIAM TURNER I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of thei... MALCOLM X Yellow-colored objects appear to be gold ARISTOTLE Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other... ALBERT EINSTEIN Mr. Speaker, the scientific evidence is overwhelming that embryonic stem cells have great potential ... JIM RAMSTAD ...to alienate human beings from their own decision-making is to change them into objects. PAULO FREIRE For the developed world, there is a choice to be made: to promote economic policies that despoil ind... PAUL HAWKEN ...21st century leaders use their brain cells more than their muscle tissues! ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Animals often strike us as passionate machines. ERIC HOFFER Stem cells with DNA matching with patient tissues regarding the 2005 paper were not found. And it is... ROE JUNG HYE In Power6, we basically combined everything we could (throw) at it in terms of fundamental atoms and... BERNARD MEYERSON Broadly speaking, the discovery of X-rays has increased the keenness of our vision ten thousand time... WILLIAM HENRY BRAGG It's designed to capture viruses from your entire blood system. It's designed to capture viruses bef... JAMES JOYCE Maybe one day when we remember that we are animals, we will stop killing eachother like human beings... CAMILLO BICA Maybe one day when we remember that we are animals, we will stop killing eachother like human beings... CAMILLO MAC BICA We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract o... JOHANN VON GOETHE As a society, we have come to a point where people too often treat one another
as objects and opport... GAIL PURSELL ELLIOTT I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writin... CARL BARKS The atoms of our body, as well, flow in and away from us. We, like waves and like all objects, are a... CARLO ROVELLI You may have heard the world is made up of atoms and molecules, but it's really made up of stori... WILLIAM TURNER We should all be able to live as human beings - and to be recognized as such by the societies we liv... CHELSEA MANNING With this state money, we will be able to work with human embryonic stem cells lines that we cannot ... DIANE KRAUSE Besides the respect of the lives of human beings, all the animals and plants should be on the list t... BUDDHA The television screen, so unlike the movie screen, sharply reduced human beings, revealed them as sm... JOYCE CAROL OATES I wondered whether the nuclear transfer techniques could be used to introduce purified macro-molecul... JOHN GURDON We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally... JONATHAN EISEN We talk about quantum weirdness and things being in two places at once, but it all involves atoms an... AARON D. O'CONNELL Rape mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which ... CHRIS HEDGES Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which... CHRIS HEDGES Traditional Christians cannot conceive of God as Mormons do: a God who has a wife, who invites other... MEIR SOLOVEICHIK That a universe exists within every human being. That to the blood cells and organs in your body, yo... PETER TIERYAS While we as a nation have made considerable progress in attracting women into most science and engin... ALICE HOGAN Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. HUSTON SMITH We know we cannot be kind to animals until we stop exploiting them -- exploiting animals in the name... CéSAR CHáVEZ Mistakes [were] made, human errors, in taking photographs and in the preservation of the stem cells. HWANG WOO SUK All human beings are commingled out of good and evil. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I have never really been fond of animals. I certainly wasn't an 'animal lover' when I be... PETER SINGER There is nothing before Science and nothing after Science. All human beings have someone or the othe... APURVA GAGLANI In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influ... ISAAC ASIMOV We are survival machines – robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules kno... RICHARD DAWKINS You literally tune the system from the atoms and molecules to the software at the other end to get t... BERNARD MEYERSON We speculate that our brains can compensate for up to a 60 percent loss of pre-Boetzinger cells, but... JACK FELDMAN We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the... EDUARD BUCHNER I want them to come away with discovering the music inside them. And not thinking about themselves a... CHARLIE HADEN When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke o... UNKNOWN Too many of the findings that have been made in animals have been proven to be true for animals, but... ABRAHAM MASLOW A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberat... STANISLAV GROF Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of deat... STANISLAV GROF Dying people in pre-industrial cultures typically died in the context of an extended family, clan, o... STANISLAV GROF Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and ... STANISLAV GROF The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a m... STANISLAV GROF The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic... STANISLAV GROF Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to wel... STANISLAV GROF When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psych... STANISLAV GROF A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope ... STANISLAV GROF I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to en... STANISLAV GROF There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and ... STANISLAV GROF Patients reported that their psychedelic sessions were an invaluable experiential training for dying... STANISLAV GROF
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