“Science has an uncomfortable way of pushing human beings from center stage. In our prescientific stories, humans began as the focal point of Nature, living on an Earth that was the center of the universe. As the origins of the Earth and of mankind were investigated more carefully, it became clear that Nature had other interests beyond people, and the Earth was less central than previously hoped. Humankind was just one branch of the great family of life, and the Earth is a smallish planet orbiting an unexceptional sun quite far out on one arm of a run-of-the-mill spiral galaxy.” PeopleWayHumansStoriesRunningEarthUniverseInterestHuman BeingsSunClearMankindStagePlanetsArmsUncomfortableBranchesJust OnePushingHumankindGalaxyLiving OnMillsSpiralsCenter Of The UniverseGreat FamilyFocal PointCenter Stage Author:Seth Lloyd
“It will be a vast boon to mankind when we learn to prophesy the precise dates when cycles of various kinds will reach definite stages.” KindMankindStageVariousCyclesDefinitePreciseBoon Author:Ellsworth Huntington
“Tracing the progress of mankind in the ascending path of civilization, and moral and intellectual culture, our fathers found that the divine ordinance of government, in every stage of the ascent, was adjustable on principles of common reason to the actual condition of a people, and always had for its objects, in the benevolent councils of the divine wisdom, the happiness, the expansion, the security, the elevation of society, and the redemption of man. They sought in vain for any title of authority of man over man, except of superior capacity and higher morality.” PeopleMenReasonGovernmentCultureFoundFatherCommonMoralPrinciplesPathProgressConditionsMankindStageSecurityObjectsDivineHigherMoralityCivilizationAuthorityIntellectualCapacityIndependenceSuperiorsRedemptionVainTitlesExpansionCouncilOur FatherBenevolentIndependence DayElevationAscentOrdinancesTracingAscendingDivine Wisdom Author:William M. Evarts
“Man is still at the learning stage, and mankind is so arrogant to think that he's the highest form of evolution on earth. There's so much of the brain that we still don't use, and that's all I ever try to do - go to the next level” ThinkingMenTryingStillsUseEarthFormNextLevelsBrainMankindStageEvolutionHighestArrogantNext Level Author:Marilyn Manson
“Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.” HumansIdeasAtheismMankindStageMiseryAtheistHuman HistoryThere Being No God Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.” FormDoubtMankindStageEvolutionHigherIndividuation Book:Selected writings: poetry and criticism Source: Selected writings: poetry and criticism
“We are making our appearance on the stage of mortality in the greatest dispensation of the gospel ever given to mankind, and we need to make the most of it.” NeedsGivenMankindStageAppearanceMortality Author:Jeffrey R. Holland