"The critical first billion years, during which life began, are blank pages in the earth's history."

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Source : Robert Jastrow (1969). “White Dwarfs: Man's Descent from the Stars”

Robert Jastrow

#Years Quotes #Earth Quotes #Pages Quotes

“There were times when there were parts that I was sure I got and then I didn't, and I did get upset. But at this point, it doesn't affect me in the least because I know how the business works.”
“We're like a Third World country when it comes to some of our election practices.”
“I got a note from the stage manager one night that someone wanted to meet me. And it was Steven Spielberg.”
“There are so many things in human living that we should regard not as traumatic learning but as incomplete learning, unfinished learning.”
“As you may know, KFC is under worldwide pressure to eliminate its cruelest abuses of chickens, such as cutting the beaks off baby birds; breeding chickens to grow so large, so quickly that many suffer crippling injuries; and slitting the birds' throats or dropping them into tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.”
“To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.”
“It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.”

Source : Lewis H. Lapham (1989). “Money and Class in America: Notes and Observations on the Civil Religion”
“When the brain is whole, the unified consciousness of the left and right hemispheres adds up to more than the individual properties of the separate hemispheres.”

Source : "New Mindset on Consciousness". Sunrise magazine, www.theosophy-nw.org. December 1987/January 1988.

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