#humans

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Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.


Jared Diamond


#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.


Jared Diamond


#except #fiction #history #human #humans

Ringo is one of the world's true humans. The only one out those four guys, who did not have an agenda. Ringo was just into the music.


Peter Tork


#did #four #guys #humans #into

Perhaps the thing that makes humans truly unique on Earth is that we are never satisfied with our situation; maybe that is what's taken us so far.


Joan D. Vinge


#far #humans #makes #maybe #never

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.


Vernor Vinge


#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

We humans have millions of years of evolutionary baggage that makes us regard competition in a deadly light.


Vernor Vinge


#competition #deadly #evolutionary #humans #light

At least believe this many humans, who are interested obviously in this topic. Many of them visited me after lectures and meetings, in hope that I can give concrete answers to their questions. For it was clear: If that does not know it, who is to then know it?


Ulrich Walter


#answers #believe #clear #concrete #does

The new formula in physics describes humans as paradoxical beings who have two complementary aspects: They can show properties of Newtonian objects and also infinite fields of consciousness.


Stanislav Grof


#aspects #beings #complementary #consciousness #describes

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose, keep in touch (or don't), care about birthdays, waste and lose time, brush their teeth, feel nostalgia, scrub stains, have religions and political parties and laws, wear keepsakes, apologize years after an offense, whisper, fear themselves, interpret dreams, hide their genitalia, shave, bury time capsules, and can choose not to eat something for reasons of conscience. The justifications for eating animals and for not eating them are often identical: we are not them.


Jonathan Safran Foer


#ethics #humans #vegetarianism #dreams

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.


Arundhati Roy


#colonizer #danger #fear #folly #humanity