"I want to change, but not if it means changing."

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Source : Stephen Grosz (2014). “The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

Stephen Grosz

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“Researchers keep identifying new species, but they have no idea about the life cycle of a given species or its other hosts. They cut open an animal and find a new species. Where did it come from? What effect does it have on its host? What is its next host? They don't know and they don't have time to find out, because there are too many other species waiting to be discovered and described.”
“As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often, 'When youâ€™re in love, you want to tell the world.â€™ And I base my beliefs on the information and the process that we call science. It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things Iâ€™ve never seen before. It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers. It is an astonishing thing that we are â€” you and I are one of the ways the universe knows itself.”
“Don’t always want to go up. Go down, like water, because eventually it’ll go up again. Just like rain, it falls from the sky, flows as a river, then merges with the sea, the goes up again as a cloud.”
“I think that the question of how power can be exerted from the lower reaches has never been more important. It will ultimately determine whether another world is indeed possible.”
“There can be no Creator, simply because his grief at the fate of his creation would be inconceivable and unendurable.”
“Anything created with fake intention or pretense cannot last long.”
“I love not knowing. It keeps me guessing.”
“Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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