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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
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental. -- Ingrid Newkirk
Are we absolutely certain that Becky Albertalli didn't just steal the diary of a hilariously observant teenage boy? Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda is a pitch-perfect triumph of wit and wordplay that feels timelessly, effortlessly now. -- Tim Federle
Religion is a practical discipline and it's one that we have always done, ever since humanity appeared on the scene when Homo sapiens became Homo sapiens. Sapiens became a human being, our minds very naturally segue into transcendence. -- Karen Armstrong
Surely one zoo in the world should have the courage to draw the ultimate conclusion about our ancestry? A cage with Homo Sapiens in all its varying forms, perhaps then we would understand ourselves better. The question of course is whether the other animals would approve of it. -- Cees Nooteboom
We are misery-making machines! Homo sapiens has perfected the art of causing suffering. Pain is humankind's collective GDP. -- Henry Rollins
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. -- Anthony Storr
Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. -- Henri Bergson
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies. -- Patricia Marx
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. -- Jock Sturges
I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens. -- Eric Idle
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. -- Jock Sturges
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
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
We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men. -- Donald Johanson
When we look for the origins of all humanity today, let's not just look at Europe, because I think Africa was the cradle, the crucible that created us as Homo sapiens. -- Donald Johanson
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will. -- Jock Sturges
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis:... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species. -- Juan Enriquez
I don't think you can impose limits on science because the very nature of homo sapiens is that he - she - is an inquisitive species. You can't control science. You have to control the effects of science. -- Robert Winston
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into deep space. High-frequency, high-power broadcasts have filled an Earth-centered bubble more than 60 light-years in radius with signals. -- Seth Shostak
My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view. -- Zeresenay Alemseged
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year. -- Michael Smith
Are we the only members of the Galaxy that can actually understand what a galaxy is? Could Homo sapiens really be the pinnacle of Creation - the cleverest critters in the cosmos? If we learn the answer is 'no,' that would affect our philosophies forever. -- Seth Shostak
Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years. -- Eliezer Yudkowsky
Humans have existed only for the last 0.001 percent of cosmic time. All of which says that - unless the Homo sapiens brain is the one-and-only instance of cogitating machinery - nearly all the intelligence that's out there is beyond our level. And that intelligence is more than just a little bit beyond. -- Seth Shostak
The right question to ask from a Darwinian prospective is what was it about bipedalism that was so advantageous? Why did it lead to a - why did that adaptation ultimately lead to a species Homo sapiens that has come to dominate the planet today with six and a half billion people? -- Donald Johanson
Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things. -- Andrew Weil
In prehistoric times, Homo sapiens was deeply endangered. Early humans were less fleet of foot, with fewer natural weapons and less well-honed senses than all the predators that threatened them. Moreover, they were hampered in their movements by the need to protect their uniquely immature young - juicy meals for any hungry beast. -- Robert Winston
Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.' -- Louise Leakey
We're all homos. Homo sapiens. -- Michael Scott
Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens -- Katherine Applegate
Don't blame a person for the wrongdoings;Both He and You are Homo-sapiens. -- Waqas Bin Ehsan
Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. -- Dana Gould
there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men. -- Letitia Baldrige
The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. -- Brian Aldiss
For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most. -- John Fowles
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. -- Stephen Jay Gould
What is human and the same about the males and females classified as Homo sapiens is much greater than the differences. -- Estelle Ramey
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
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Don't blame a person for the wrongdoings; Both He and You are Homo-sapiens.Don't greet a person for the rightdoings; Try to be a Homo-sapien. -- Waqas Bin Ehsan
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
Are the different species defined by paleontologists - Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis and ourselves, Homo sapiens - all part of the same gene pool or not? -- Bryan Sykes
Capitalism, in contrast, has existed for fewer than 300 years. If the entire history of Homo sapiens was a 24-hour day, then capitalism has existed for two minutes. -- Jim Stanford
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
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
Spoken language clearly differentiates Homo sapiens from all other creatures. None but humankind produces a complex spoken language, a medium for communication and a medium for introspective reflection. -- Richard Leakey
Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become. -- E. O. Wilson
Natural selection operates according to immediate cirumstances and not toward a long-term goal. Homo sapiens did eventually evolve as a descendant of the first humans, but there was nothing inevitable about it. -- Richard Leakey
For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens. -- William Ralph Inge
A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a soul? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens? -- David G. McAfee
A question for Christians who accept evolution: When did we gain a "soul"? Did Homo habilis have a soul? Homo ergaster? Did God only spontaneously add a soul when we evolved into Homo sapiens? -- David G. McAfee
The disastrous history of our species indicates the futility of all attempts at a diagnosis which do not take into account the possibility that homo sapiens is a victim of one of evolution's countless mistakes. -- Arthur Koestler
There isn't much doubt that like other animal societies, those of Homo sapiens involved plenty of cooperation, which might have been considerably enhanced, one would suppose, by the emergence of the remarkable instrument of language. -- Noam Chomsky

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