#mans

Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water. ↗

— William Powers

#environment #humans #kevlar #preservation #silk

Something I've realized lately, to my shock, is that I am an optimist, in that I think humans are almost infinitely capable of self-change and self-modification, and that we really can build the future that we want if we're smart about it. ↗

— Brian Eno

#almost #am #build #capable #future

We humans are a fairly barbarous bunch. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#bunch #fairly #humans

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. ↗

— Johannes Brahms

#inspiration #mere #reed #shaken #wind

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts. ↗

— James Broughton

#humans #i #out #owe #parts

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#believe #cottage #descended #inferior #man

I recommend the same therapies for all humans with HIV. There is no reason to believe that physiologic responses to therapy will vary across lines of class, culture, race or nationality. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#believe #class #culture #hiv #humans

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder. ↗

— Vincent Bugliosi

#katie #linda #manson #mission #murder

White people are potential humans - they haven't evolved yet. ↗

— Louis Farrakhan

#haven #humans #people #potential #white

To me, I think people who don't think it's a big deal to toss a plastic bottle in the garbage are not only being irresponsible, but I think they're being disrespectful of all the other humans on earth. ↗

— Sophia Bush

#big #big deal #bottle #deal #disrespectful