#humans

Referring to Jumper the spider, who needs to hide himself in human form, and he's learning to act like a human. "I'm sure I can learn to walk faster than that," he said desperately. "But you'll also need to learn the nuances of human behavior. Such as not going around naked." "What's wrong with being natural?" he demanded. "Humans aren't natural. They are girt about by all manner of conventions. It will take time for you to catch up with them all. ↗

— Piers Anthony

#morals #spiders #nature

In terms of adaptability, humans are pretty amazingly useless. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#science #science

We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library ↗

— Carl Sagan

#communal-memory #humanity #humanity-and-society #humans #libraries

Nothing captures human interest more than human tragedy. ↗

— Dan Brown

#humans #tragedy

Others can make us vulnerable and the sooner such vulnerabilities are dealt with the better ↗

— Ron Rash

#humans #love #vulnerable #love

Ubi boni, malum prosperat (Where good men are silent, evil prospers) ↗

— F. Sionil José

#good #humans #men

Yes, the first job I had at the studio was Snow White. I don't like the term particularly, but I got stuck with the human characters. They just didn't have that many people who could draw humans. ↗

— Marc Davis

#could #draw #first #got #had

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

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated. ↗

— David Duchovny

#affection #anything #care #complicated #damn