Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.more than a rounding error.
The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things in life like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people in life recognize, that in life they...
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Neil Degrasse Tyson
And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you...
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Unknown
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
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Isaac Asimov
I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.
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Arthur C. Clarke
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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Charles Darwin
More Quotes By Elizabeth Kolbert
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes.. No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctions in the record and yet changes in ocean chemistry seem to be a...
In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.
Amphibians–the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.
According to Lamarck, there was a force–the ‘power of life’–that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
