"Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring."

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Source : "How we found hundreds of potential Earth-like planets". TEDGlobal Talk, www.ted.com. July 2010.

Dimitar Sasselov

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“A river of words flowed between us.”
“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun.”

Source : "Stephen Fry reveals new BBC TV series" by Tim Lusher, www.theguardian.com. July 20, 2010.
“Directing is a tremendous art.”
“Never throw up on an editor.”
“It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.”
“Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only everlasting source of continuous being.”
“Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean â€œMore people diedâ€ donâ€™t say â€œMortality rose.”
“If we would have new knowledge, we must get a whole world of new questions.”

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