"In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe life began on Mars and came to Earth, and that idea seemed to have a lot of traction and is now accepted as very plausible."

-- Paul Davies

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“People will steal it if you don't make it easy to buy it.”
“In the spiritual realm, the opposite of ignorance is not knowledge, it's obedience.”
“The market, if it can be kept honest and competitive, does provide very strong incentives for work effort and productive contributions. In their absence, society would thrash about for alternative incentives-some unreliable, like altruism; some perilous like collective loyalty; some intolerable, like coercion or oppression.”
“Father, make of me a crisis man. Bring those I contact to decision. Let me not be a milepost on a single road; make me a fork, that men must turn one way or another on facing Christ in me.”

Source : "Shadow of the Almighty" by Elisabeth Elliot, Jim Elliot, 1989.
“A lot of environmental and biological science depends on technology to progress. Partly I'm talking about massive server farms that help people crunch genetic data - or atmospheric data. But I also mean the scientific collaborations that the Internet makes possible, where scientists in India and Africa can work with people in Europe and the Americas to come up with solutions to what are, after all, global problems.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.”

Source : Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.153, Crown Business
“Every day-care center, whether it knows it or not, is a school. The choice is never between custodial care and education. The choice is between unplanned and planned education, between conscious and unconscious education, between bad education and good education.”
“If you do not raise your eyes you will think that you are the highest point.”

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