One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that it apprehends are the highest things that can be known), and also it is the most continuous, because we are more capable of continuous contemplation than we are of any practical activity.
Through machinery, man can exert tremendous powers almost as fantastic as if he were the hero of a fairy tale. Through machinery, man can travel with an ever increasing velocity; he can fly through the air and go beneath the surface of the ocean.
I'm not a prophet or a stone aged man, just a mortal with potential of a superman. I'm living on.
I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.
God gives us intelligence to uncover the wonders of nature. Without the gift, nothing is possible.
The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.
Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
We're all always wondering about our own limits, what we're capable of.
Anything that has been accomplished by any other human being in the physical realm is within the field of possibility.
Science merely amplifies the capabilities of human beings. Science gives us the ability to do ill and to do good more than we had, and to question science in this respect is like questioning whether people ought to have two hands or just one, because with two hands they could do more evil than they can with just one.
For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.
Many things are formidable, and none more formidable than man.
There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.
Don't fall for a magic wand, we humans got it all, we perform the miracles.
We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
Human potential is the only limitless resource we have in this world.
[If] man creates the problem, surely man can solve it.
We are seldom as limited as we think we are.
