Human Advantage Quotes

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

I think that God gave us a brain, and that it's the only thing we have to survive. All life forms have some advantage, some trick, some claw, some camouflage, some poison, some speed, something to help them survive. We've got a brain. Therefore it's our duty to use our brain.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

Mathematics - the unshaken Foundation of Sciences, and the plentiful Fountain of Advantage to human affairs.

Robots are very tricky to design and expensive, whereas humans are cheaply manufactured. Humans can handle things with greater manual dexterity than most robots I've known.

Swarms are one very simple way of keeping ourselves ahead of the machines.

My computer beat me at checkers, but I sure beat it at kickboxing.

In a sense, we are better prepared to praise God than the angels are, for angels have never known the joy of redemption.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

The main peculiarity which distinguishes man from other animals, is the means of his support, is the power which he possesses of very greatly increasing these means.

Bridge is one of the last games in which the computer is not better.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

One thing that humans still do better than computers is recognize images.

It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.

Some of the animals outsee man, outsmell him, outhear him, outrun him, outswim him, because their lives depend more upon these special powers than his does; but he can outwit them all because he has the resourcefulness of reason and is at home in many different fields.

Know, man hath all which Nature hath, but more, And in that more lie all his hopes of good.

Animals, we have been told, are taught by their organs. Yes, I would add, and so are men, but men have this further advantage that they can also teach their organs in return.