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Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.

Douglas Adams

Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

J. K. Rowling

Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.

Thomas Hobbes

A cow's immune system is similar to humans.

Jim Chapman

We asked ourselves, 'If we have a lot of ozone in the air on a beautiful summer afternoon, what does that do biologically to humans and plants?' .

William Manning

It does the same thing for in essence barrel horses that it does for humans.

Murray Turner

Humans plant every tree and flower they can, ... They make gardens everywhere.

Michael Thompson

Only birds can be infected. There is no bird flu strain that can be transmitted to humans in Dagestan.

Nikolai Vlasov

Brother humans who live after us, do not harden your hearts against us.

Francois Villon

The current detectors we install can differentiate between humans and animals. It sees the dog, but it ignores the dog and it flags the human.

Ahmad Razzaghy

This recognizes the will of humans and allows drivers to drive as they wish in comfort.

Katsuaki Watanabe

They are not afraid of humans because they also walk on two legs and we don't look that different.

Diego Bock

The disease organism alone could be a problem for native species, even for humans.

Jerry Jackson

People are people, humans are humans, everybody still lives in this one world.

Brandon Luckett

We can confirm it is actually possible to vaccinate humans against this bird virus.

Terry Nolan

The major accomplishment is that we now have a catalogue of the genetic differences between humans and chimps.

Tarjei Mikkelsen

It may be that all games are silly. But then, so are humans.

Robert Lynd

You [humans] think that you an insignificant, while there is a great universe contained in you.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

The bacteria gets in their mouth and it sits there. It's nasty. But humans are not on their dinner list.

Mark Schick

The animals make less mistakes than the humans.

Bill Berloni

Humans are the only animals that have children on purpose with the exception of guppies, who like to eat theirs.

P. J. O'Rourke

We've heavily tested them on humans.

Dave Benson

This is a very good estimate of how humans travel.

Dr Dirk Brockmann

This clearly has nothing to do with human agency. These dispersal events happened long before humans were around.

Richard Preece

This is an example in which a new behavior spread through a population, ... We had the opportunity to see a tradition form and spread in exactly the way that cultures do in humans.

Michael Noonan

All of that means they're harder to control around livestock and humans.

Stan Schneider

They do the most horrific things to these people. They do not even look at these people as humans.

Brian Steidle

Although humans and chimpanzees outwardly show a very similar pattern.

Stephen Wooding

Many of these birds were raised in captivity. They lost their fear of humans and people should not feed them.

Kent Hall

One shouldn't be afraid of the humans. Well, I am not afraid of the humans, but of what is inhuman in them.

Ivo Andric

[For now, bird flu is] still very much an animal disease and animal problem, ... If we can really control the animal sector, the risk to humans is low.

Dr Margaret Chan

That's why this is so heartbreaking for people. Experience doesn't make people invincible. It just demonstrates how fragile humans are.

Kyle Patterson

Where bears have habituated to people and are conditioned to human foods and have lost their fear of humans, you may have the chance for human injury, slight though it may be.

Jim Cardoza

I've lived in this country for nine years and have never come to a zoo, ... This exhibit made us come to the zoo. Humans are animals too.

Mark Ainsworth

These findings were intriguing. But to apply them to humans, we needed to examine patients with asthma.

Dale Umetsu

At first, the cows follow the trails just like the humans do.

Mark Cagle

We are not finished with this yet. This is a brand new disease, the first time in humans. We are not sure what the future holds.

Jim Hughes

This is not leukemia, this is not pneumonia, this is not something they know how to deal with. This is a drug that they have never tested on humans before so they don't know what they are dealing with.

Mysanwy Marshal

Fifty to 100 years ago, humans had no choice but to be active. Today, we have to choose to be active.

Sarah Ash

Impossible is a word humans use far too often.

Jeri Ryan

There are creatures from all over the universe, and they're not all going to look like humans.

Kevin Jones

Essentially during this time the majority of evolution that humans consider important evolved.

Richard Muller

It did belong to someone. It's used to humans.

Christina Verdin

It's an interesting challenge, and humans do it beautifully. Just look at the coordination of the athletes in the Olympics.

Robert Ambrose

It is not responsible at this stage to even consider the cloning of humans.

Rudolf Jaenisch

The discovery that early humans could have existed this far north this long ago was startling.

Chris Stringer

Something had to start the process of brain expansion, and I think it was early humans eating clams, frogs, bird eggs and fish from shoreline environments.

Stephen Cunnane

Humans want human contact. You want someone empathetic who can help you.

Paul English

I don't dictate what humans should read. Only 15-20 percent of men read fiction. The rest don't.

David Booth

Evidence is emerging that disruption of one's circadian clock is associated with cancer in humans, and that interference with internal timekeeping can tip the balance in favor of tumor development.

David Blask

It was a disaster. Cats in that house were eating dead cats, and some had bacterial infections that could be transferred to humans.

Richard Sommers

Humans have now become the dominant force controlling the ecosystems of the world, ... And we don't know what the implications are.

David Tilman

No matter what happens, there are humans involved. We make mistakes. We try to go through enough checks and balances.

Dan Stevens

Humans feel deeply the suffering of their friends and allies, and easily discount / dismiss the comparable experience of their enemies.

Ray Kurzweil

Humans will ultimately contain any pandemic, as they always have done before.

Christopher Wood

If it gets into the wild birds and then it gets into the domestic poultry, then we've got a very direct contact between humans and infected birds.

Joe Johnson

Bears lose their natural fear of humans once they've obtained human food.

Nancy Gray

He will talk about humans as innately violent and innately altruistic, both.

Kevin Hunt

I think it's unfair, but they have the right as fallible, screwed-up humans to be unfair; that's the human condition.

Albert Ellis

I am especially excited about giving computers common sense. Computers should be able to understand the emotions of humans. As computers begin to understand the human world, they can help us far more efficiently.

Frank Moss

We are proud of being in this country. We ask that all Americans try to be united as humans. Don't look for differences.

Sandra Sanchez

Come, friendly bombs, and fall on Slough. / It isn't fit for humans now.

John Betjeman

Just like humans, if you agitate (the cows) a little, excite them, the calves drop like son of a guns.

James Settelmeyer

The only model for studying human cancer is humans.

Ira Mellman

Armed with the right information, humans can design, fabricate, and implant artificial lenses on any animal.

Chris Murphy

With an increase in human traffic comes an increase in the types of behaviors that humans exhibit.

Jill Haynes

Genetically speaking, most humans really don't do much for the health of the species.

Stephen Evans

So, unlike in humans, every chimp male's sperm has to fight really hard to fertilize a single egg.

Jennifer Hughes

A great deal more basic research is needed before we can even begin to think about applying this to humans.

Claude Lenfant

As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.

Wally Lamb

I use a phone and a computer every day, taking advantage of what humans before me created. I could not have created those tools on my own.

Carel Van Schaik

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic alone cannot solve.

James T. Kirk

I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

Rachel Weisz

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Frank Herbert

We envision humans healing animals and animals healing humans.

Dawn Rogers

The human's place in the universe will be set in the scheme of evolution, the product of our biological inheritance.

Walter Gilbert

Dogs are very perceptive and they certainly do pick up things that we humans would not. They are very sensitive to our needs and feelings.

Quixi Sonntag

This may be appropriate for cattle, pets or packages, but for humans it is a very different issue.

Lee Tien

Wolves have bigger brains than dogs, so it was thought the wolves would do better. And chimpanzees are primates, closer to humans, so it was thought they would do better.

Brian Hare

The big question is why are humans so different?

Yoav Gilad

Listening to them, you would think they want studies done on humans.

Michael Jacobson

This is unlikely to make any significant contribution to the protection of humans against avian influenza.

Juan Lubroth

The lethal capacity of this virus is very, very high, so it's a deadly virus that humans have not been exposed to before. That's a very bad combination.

Irwin Redlener

The difference between critics and audiences is that one is a group of humans and one is not.

Edward Albee

The fact that you have so many [retired] people who have firearms, who are human and are fallible, and get into the things humans get into, it has to be expected on some level.

Eugene O'donnell

The big thing is that the pet population is something that people can do something about. Humans have a choice to do the decent and humane thing. We can walk away from it and ignore it, but I have decided to not walk away from it.

Eugene Dial

Right now, animals are generally considered property. Animals do not have rights in the sense that humans have rights.

Eric Sandgren

There is no data on non-obese humans.

Eric Ravussin

About 99 percent of genes in humans have counterparts in the mouse. Eighty percent have identical, one-to-one counterparts.

Eric Lander

Humans have had a large one-of-a-kind influence on the climate.

Erich Roeckner

Within the scientific community there is no debate about the fact that the Earth is warming, and the fact that humans have contributed to that warming.

Ellen Prager

It turns out that the way humans are made, the software-based approach seems to have much more success.

Edward Castronova

This virus is not yet adapted to humans, it is not capable of human-to-human transmission and until that happens this will not be a pandemic strain.

Zsuzsanna Jakab

This virus, we are sure, cannot infect humans.

Zhengli Shi