"Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance."

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Source : "Alien Life Imagined: Communicating the Science and Culture of Astrobiology". Book by Mark Brake, 2012.

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

#Knowledge Quotes #Science Quotes #Our World Quotes

“Me and my wife were interested in avoiding style, in eliminating voice, in getting away from the poetry logics, textures, and propulsions that we normally employ in our writing. But we arrived at even this organically and separately.”

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“Nobody can say that Iâ€™m lazy in training.”
“You do not steal from the dragon, oh, no. The dragon remembers.”
“Love can never grow old. Looks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still....”
“Smith could not be expected to have anticipated the horrors that were to come. But even in his own time, he was a defender of certain state actions that he thought necessary in order to safeguard the good effects of commercial society (Smith did not speak of 'capitalism' and was acquainted only with an early undeveloped form of it). Among these state actions the chief was general public education.”
“The dignity of man is in free choice.”
“When I was born I owed twelve dollars.”
“It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.”

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