"We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive."

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Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

Dimitar Sasselov

#Rocks Quotes #Water Quotes #Needs Quotes

“California seemed to me to be all about secrets and the need for safety. And this leads to this thematic messiness I'm still trying to figure out what to do with. I mean, when it comes to the themes, this is nothing like an Atwood novel.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Since the invention of steamships distant countries have become like those that are near at hand.”
“A man must drive his energy, not be driven by it.”
“If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.”
“I just stay away from the news and try and find people around me who are doing positive things and look to them.”
“There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.”

Source : "True Humanism". Book by Jacques Maritain (p. xi), 1938.
“Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.”
“It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com

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