Human Experiment Quotes

#1. No doubt, humans will do a lot of damage before we ultimately destroy ourselves. But life will continue without humans. New forms of intelligence will emerge long after this human experiment is over.

Zeena Schreck

#2. Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. It is only those who hope to transform human beings who end up by burning them, like the waste product of a failed experiment.

Christopher Hitchens

#4. Bradshaw especially didn't like the use of the word "experiment" in regard to social conditions. Experiments included of necessity, expendable components. Failure was a precursor to success. When the components were human, who had the audacity to use, lose them, toss them away?

Bernadette Pajer

#5. Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?

George Washington

#6. What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Hope isn't an abstract theory about where human aspirations end and the impossible begins; it's a never-ending experiment, continually expanding the boundaries of the possible.

Paul Rogat Loeb

#8. In scientific matters there was a common language and one standard of values; in moral and political problems there were many. ... Furthermore, in science there is a court of last resort, experiment, which is unavailable in human affairs.

Emilio G. Segre

#9. We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Thomas Jefferson

#10. A strong intuition is much more powerful than a weal test. Normals teach us rules; outliers teach us laws. For every perfect medical experiment, there is a perfect human bias.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#11. Thus, human beings are now carrying out a large scale geophysical experiment of the kind that could not have happened in the past ... Within a few centuries we are returning to the atmosphere and oceans the concentrated organic carbon stored in sedimentary rocks over hundreds of millions of years.

Roger Revelle

#12. The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

James Morcan

#13. human beings, each one of whom is a priceless, unique experiment of nature, are being shot to death in carloads.1 If

Hermann Hesse

#14. Call it dating if you like, but I didn't want her to be under the impression that it was anything serious. Not at that point in any case, it was more to be an experiment in human social relationships, one which might or might not lead to sex and or marriage.

Andrew James Pritchard

#15. How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fact that the most important questions a human being can ask do not have or need answers.

Madeleine L'Engle

#16. The vision is true north for the soul. It is a permanent, intuitive compass direction for a human being. Every person inevitably strays from the path. Life is an endless experiment and course correction. The vision brings one back to the true path.

Thomas G. Bandy

#17. Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked of it, the less well it performs. When this happens in a psychological experiment, it is interesting. When it happens in traffic, it can be fatal.

Tom Vanderbilt

#18. I do not believe that it could never be justifiable to experiment on a brain-damaged human.

Peter Singer

#19. In recent weeks we learned that scientists have created human embryos in test tubes solely to experiment on them. This is deeply troubling, and a warning sign that should prompt all of us to think through these issues very carefully.

George W. Bush

#20. I have a job to pay attention. It is my number one duty as a human being - to earn an experiment in self-government every day by spotlighting cockroaches who violate their oath to the US constitution and wipe their ass with the US Constitution

Ted Nugent

#21. The doctrine that the world is made up of objects whose existence is independent of human consciousness turns out to be in conflict with quantum mechanics and with facts established by experiment.

Bernard D'Espagnat

#22. There could conceivably be circumstances in which an experiment on an animal stands to reduce suffering so much that it would be permissible to carry it out even if it involved harm to the animal ... [even if] the animal were a human being.

Peter Singer

#23. The materials are mostly from living beings - living human beings. They need to be alive to extract the necessary materials.

Brad McKinniss

#24. There's nothing within science per se that says medical researchers must not experiment on human subjects; it is the imposition of ethical dogma that constrains the scientist.

Jonah Goldberg

#25. An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is so important that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable.

Peter Singer

#26. I look at the human life like an experiment. Every new moment, every new experience, tragic or otherwise, is an opportunity to gain a more accurate perspective and helps lead me to clarity.

Steve Gleason

#27. Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Hermann Hesse

#28. By preventing dangerous asteroid strikes, we can save millions of people, or even our entire species. And, as human beings, we can take responsibility for preserving this amazing evolutionary experiment of which we and all life on Earth are a part.

Rusty Schweickart

#29. America has never seen itself as a national state like all others, but rather as an experiment in human freedom and democracy.

Brent Scowcroft

#30. We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

#31. Until now travel had always been a fraught affair. Each year until she was sixteen, it had been two weeks fighting with her sister in a caravan in Filey while her parents drank steadily and looked out at the rain, a sort of harsh experiment in the limits of human proximity.

David Nicholls

#32. After all, when the world looks to America, they look to us because we are the most successful political and economic experiment in human history.

Condoleezza Rice

#33. But, it has something to do with having belief in a human future and what that human future is. What is the future of humanity? How does this whole experiment not self-destruct with the environment and everything else going on?

Brit Marling