homo quotes

  • The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

    - BrianWilson Aldiss
      On space flight, in The Guardian. Prince  Consort  of  Queen  Victoria,  son  of  the  Duke  of  Saxe- Coburg-Gotha.  A  patron  of  the  arts  and  science,  he  planned the Great Exhibition of1851. He died of typhoid.

  •    Ecce homo. Behold the man.

    -Bible (Vulgate)
    St  John19:5.

  • Es usted un homo sapiens, mam|fero vertebrado† Se encuentra en el periodo de domesticacio  n, y ser|a colocado en una jaula al menor s|ntoma de ferocidad. En la escuela, en los laboratorios o en las oficinas de gobierno sabemos todo cuanto puede saberse de usted, de sus semejantes o de los otros seres en la escala zoolo  gica. You are a homo sapiens, a vertebrate mammal† You are currently being tamed, and you would be put in a cage if you showed any sign of fierceness. At school, in the laboratories and in government offices we know as much as can be known about you, about your fellow beings and about the other beings in the zoological scale.

    - Emilio Carballido
      El d|  a que se soltaron los leones ('The Day When They Let the Lions Loose'), act1.

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