The epithet Homo fallibilis acknowledges that we are both capable and fallible.

One way of viewing mankind is nature becoming aware of itself. We are highly evolved, contingent arrangements of biomolecules dwelling in a remote corner of an immense, interconnected universe which, in the fullness of time, have become self-aware.

There is a certain grandeur in this Darwinian view of Homo sapiens; but we are almost certainly not the only sentient beings in the universe... And lest we forget our built in primate limitations, our propensity for getting things wrong, our escalating befoulment of the planet and our bloody, awful history...