"Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are somehow the culmination. Our sun, however, is less than halfway through its lifespan. It will not be humans who watch the sun's demise, 6 billion years from now. Any creatures that then exist will be as different from us as we are from bacteria or amoebae."

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Source : "The Catastrophist" by Christopher Hitchens, www.theatlantic.com. January 2010.

Martin Rees

#Thinking Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“It's hard for a person to try to keep his stuff together being nominated for something and then performing onstage.”

Source : "Three 6 Mafia". Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. March 12, 2006.
“Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.”
“The reality of the final moment, just before shooting [the scene], is so powerful that all previous analysis must yield before the impressions you receive under these circumstances, and unless you use this feedback to your positive advantage, unless you adjust to it, adapt to it and accept the sometimes terrifying weaknesses it can expose, you can never realize the most out of your film.”
“Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.”
“Mass incarceration is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.”
“We are innately creative beings capable of writing a love story worth living, and we cannot afford to miss out on the opportunity to experience nourishing relationships.”
“You can't control what you can't measure”

Source : Robert L. Glass, Tom DeMarco (2006). “Software Creativity 2.0”, p.130, developer.* Books
“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity." Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

Source : Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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