"When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the plurality of worlds will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe."

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Source : Dimitar Sasselov (2012). “The Life of Super-Earths: How the Hunt for Alien Worlds and Artificial Cells Will Revolutionize Life on Our Planet”, p.16, Basic Books

Dimitar Sasselov

#Home Quotes #World Quotes #Earth Quotes

“I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.”
“[P]opulation, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty-five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio. ... [T]he means of subsistence, under circumstances the most favorable to human industry, could not possibly be made to increase faster than in an arithmetical ratio.”
“I always hope to be a better person tomorrow than today.”
“Only those who do not work do not make mistakes.”
“Every renaissance comes to the world with a cry, the cry of the human spirit to be free.”
“This is the one-off occasion and you can't get any bigger occasion than that”
“The only feeling that anyone can have about an event he does not experience is the feeling aroused by his mental image of that event ... For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities.”

Source : Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.7, Courier Corporation
“You don't get to choose how you're going to die, or when. You can only decide how you're going to live. Now.”

Source : Joan Baez (1968). “DAYBREAK”

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