"Love, first begotten of all created things ..."

“My mom is proud of me. But she might not be too happy about the hours I keep or how little I eat. I wake up so late that it would be inappropriate to have breakfast. At most, I will have a snack in the day and dinner. I realize that it's not the healthiest way to live, but it's all I really have time for.”

“We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.”

Source : Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

“I want you to really be able to grasp the wonder of it, the marvel of it, the size of it and really be able to get a good conception of its magnificence and it tremendous colossal gigantic stupendous size and beauty and splendour!”

“There is no doubt that human survival will continue to depend more and more on human intellect and technology. It is idle to argue whether this is good or bad. The point of no return was passed long ago, before anyone knew it was happening.”

“The means prepare the end, and the end is what the means have made of it.”

“I can establish the expectation of retributive justice. Have we done that? No.”

“I try to choose the songs that really are basically coming from my heart. I think that through the songs that I select, people know what's going on in my life.”

“There are the further difficulties of building a population out of a diversity of races, each at a different stage of cultural evolution, some in need of restraint, many in need of protection; everywhere a bewildering Babel of tongues.”

Source : Sir Arthur Keith (1947). “Evolution and Ethics”