Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When people are thinking, we are quite inventive animals.
For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.
Mankind invents things to fight about.
We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
Humanity at the centre of the primates, Homo sapiens, in humanity, is the end-product of a gradual work of creation, the successive sketches for which still surround us on every side.
The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.
We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
From the dust of the earth, from the common elementary fund, the Creator has made Homo sapiens. From the same material he has made every other creature, however noxious and insignificant to us. They are earth-born companions and our fellow mortals.