Homo Habilis Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Half of the world lives on [about] $2 a day. If there is a hungry kid in the world, we shouldn't consider ourselves more evolved than homo habilis.

Shakira

#3. These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

E. O. Wilson

#4. Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.

Carl Sagan

#5. I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

Deborah Ellis

#6. It's fun to see how other artists adapt my work.

Brian Selznick

#7. Aristotle states that only one thing could justify monarchy, and that was if the virtue of the king and his family were greater than the virtue of the rest of the citizens put together. Tactfully,

Aristotle.

#8. In politics, everyone regards themselves as a moderate, because they know some other sumbitch who's twice as crazy as they are.

Timothy B. Tyson

#9. On many days, harder than the act of making the art itself is the act of sharing it and living in a culture that you know is built to tear you down.

Amanda Palmer

#10. Anyone and anything can survive the daylight. It's night that's the hardest to live.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#11. Leases, writes, statutes, all are written to be read and each person reads them by the light of self-interest.

Hilary Mantel

#12. Dear Reader, please forgive me if I have wasted your time.

Leonard Cohen