"Our galaxy is 10 billion years old. The Earth is only 4.5 billion years old. We are a firefly flicker in the great astrobiology of the galaxy."

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Source : "Hunting for the Great Galactic Internet". Interview with Slate, www.slate.com. April 8, 2012.

Geoffrey Marcy

#Firefly Quotes #Earth Quotes #Galaxy Quotes

“I said I have no powers of invention. Well, I also have no powers of mimicry.”
“We can love completely what we cannot completely understand.”
“It's all kinds of these profound things crashing on you when your child arrives into the world. It's like you've met your reason to live.”
“It is inconceivable that, in the richest nation in the world, we have 30 million people at risk of hunger. I believe that, if we truly make a commitment as a nation, we can defeat hunger.”
“The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning.”
“Secrecy is a vacuum and nothing fills a vacuum like paranoid speculation.”

Source : Max Brooks (2006). “World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War”, p.45, Broadway Books
“I strongly suggest that we play down basics like who influenced whom, and instead study the way the influence is transformed, in other words: how the artist made it his own.”
“The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.”

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