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“I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe.”

Ifs Thinking Needs Humans Looks Long Earth Universe Term Space Race Planets Human Race Long Term Horizon Inward Planet Earth

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The most horrible wickedness and cruelties, and the greatest miseries that have troubled the human race began with this thing called revelation, or revealed religion. ... It would be far, far better for us to let a thousand devils roam the world, and publicly preach the doctrine of devils (if there were such a thing, which there isn't), than to let one impostor and monster such a Moses, Joshua, Samuel or the Bible prophets come speaking the so-called word of God, and causing men to believe it.”

Ifs Men World Believe Humans Would Be Race Thousand Devil Misery Monsters Horrible Doctrine Cruelty Human Race Prophet Revelations Word Of God Wickedness Moses

Author:Thomas Paine

“Chacun exige d'e" tre innocent, a' tout prix, me" me si, pour cela, il faut accuser le genre humain et le ciel. Everyone insists on his or her innocence, at all costs, even if it means accusing the rest of the human race and heaven.”

Ifs Humans Mean Heaven Race Cost Innocent Innocence Genre Human Race Accusing Accusers

Author:Albert Camus

“There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.”

Humans May Ends Reason Might Would Be Used Animal Race Planets Return Advantage Human Race Bombs Topics Unlimited Cheerful Homo Sapiens Hydrogen Uranium Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Bertrand Russell

“The best authorities are unanimous in saying that a war with H-bombs might possibly put an end to the human race. It is feared that if many H-bombs are used there will be universal death, sudden only for a minority, but for the majority a slow torture of disease and disintegration.”

Ifs Humans War Ends Might Used Race Disease Authority Universal Majority Human Race Torture Bombs Minorities Disintegration

Book:Man's Peril, 1954-55

Source: Man's Peril, 1954-55

“How much good it would do if one could exterminate the human race.”

Ifs Humans Race Human Race

Author:Bertrand Russell

“In former days, men sold themselves to the Devil to acquire magical powers. Nowadays they acquire those powers from science, and find themselves compelled to become devils. There is no hope for the world unless power can be tamed, and brought into the service, not of this or that group of fanatical tyrants, but of the whole human race, white and yellow and black, fascist and communist and democrat; for science has made it inevitable that all must live or all must die.”

Men World Humans Made Whole Dies Black White Race Groups Devil Democrat Made It Former Inevitable Human Race Acquire Communist Tyrants Yellow Compelled Fascists No Hope Tamed

Author:Bertrand Russell

“A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.”

Humans Ends Natural Race Plans Achieve Universal Philosophical Unions Work Out Human Race Civics Contributing

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays.”

“Physician of the Iron Age, Goethe has done his pilgrimage. He took the suffering human race, He read each wound, each weakness clear -- And struck his finger on the place, And said -- Thou ailest here, and here.”

Humans Said Done Age Suffering Race Clear Weakness Fingers Wounds Human Race Iron Physicians Pilgrimage

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.”

Way Humans Would Be Race Half Human Race Prostitution One Half

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“If Americans should now turn back, submit again to slavery, it would be a betrayal so base the human race might better perish.”

Ifs Should Humans Might Would Be Turns Race Slavery Betrayal Human Race Submit

Book:God of the Machine

Source: God of the Machine

“The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth as handy and efficient as letting you and the other chap, or chaps, cease to be totally sober at about the same rate in agreeable surroundings.”

Knows Way Humans Race Rate Cease Ice Human Race Barriers Efficient Sober Surroundings Handy Chaps Dissolving

Book:Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Source: Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

“The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.”

Humans Universe Stars Process Race Tree Mountain Intuition Accidents Human Race Cosmic Aurora

Book:Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

Source: Alone: The Classic Polar Adventure

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