If there is anything more frightening than the threat of global nuclear war, it is the certainty that humans not only stand on the verge of producing new life forms but may soon be able to tinker with them as if they were vintage convertibles or bonsai trees.
Some people will deny anything that displeases or scares them: unusual pain in their chests, unwanted lumps beneath their skin, or the fact that humans share ancestry with apes are a few examples. Another is climate change.
There are people who could watch a hurricane like Sandy blow out of the Atlantic every other day and blame it on anything but human activity. They are like those who, having been diagnosed with diabetes, eat donuts for breakfast. There's not much to do about them.
The history of agriculture is the history of humans breeding seeds and animals to produce traits we want in our crops and livestock.
My secret to all casting, and specifically kids, is cast good human beings.
There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.
The outcome of that debate will shape the course of human events,
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.