"All Nature bristles with the marks of interrogation-among the grass and the petals of flowers, amidst the feathers of birds and the hairs of mammals, on mountain and moorland, in sea and sky-everywhere. It is one of the joys of life to discover those marks of interrogation, these unsolved and half-solved problems and try to answer their questions."

-- J. Arthur Thomson

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“This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind.”
“Learning is a plant that grows in all climes.”
“The Earth is a living, breathing entity. Without ongoing care and nurturing, there will be consequences too big to ignore.”
“Our ancestors derived less from life than we do, but they also expected much less and were less intent on controlling the future. We are of the arrogant generations who believe a lasting happiness was promised to us at birth. Promised? By whom?”

Source : Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.342, Macmillan
“But chiefly Thou, Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from Heaven To bleed for man, to teach him how to live, And, oh! still harder lesson! how to die.”

Source : William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.288
“The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.”
“In journalism, a fact is just a fact. But in fiction, you have to build your case. It has to be made, step by step.”
“whereas there are many people in the world who can give life to others, there are but few who can help others to possess it.”

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