Quotations on Man
The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.
-Carl Becker
Man is a tool-making animal.
-Thomas Carlyle
All the tools and engines on earth are only extensions of man's limbs and senses.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly.
-Samuel Johnson
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
-Wernher von Braun
Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the human race.
-H.G. Wells
Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
-Gene Fowler

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