Top 5 Robert Buettner Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “The only animal capable of giving man a fair fight is man. Actually, among ourselves, we fight unfairest of all, and the more we practice, the nastier we get.”

— Robert Buettner

2. “One human could simply withhold its feelings and intentions from another human by failing to audibilize or it could audibilize things that were not real. The other human would be aware only of what it heard and would change its behavior in response to a nonexistent stimulus. They called it ’lying.”

— Robert Buettner

3. “Absence of proof isn’t proof of absence.”

— Robert Buettner

4. “Planetologist call it the conundrum of unforeseen ecological consequence. I call it the whack-a-mole rule of human meddling. She clasped both hands like a child hammering. WHACK! We change something here. Oops, that makes another problem pop up there where we didn’t expect it. WHACK! So, we whack that mole. Oops! We’re so smart that we’re a menace.”

— Robert Buettner

5. “People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.”

— Robert Buettner

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