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> [“Heaven and Earth are large, yet in the whole of space they are but as a small grain of rice. . . . How unreasonable it would be to suppose that, besides the heaven and Earth which we can see,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/heaven-and-earth-are-large-yet-in-the-whole-of-space-they-are-but-as/)

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## More by Rob Dunn

> [“Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/science-is-full-of-egos-and-arrogance-but-it-is-fuller-of-simple/)

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> [“The blind men before the elephant are thus, in their way, like astrobiologists or like scientists in any new field at the frontiers of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/the-blind-men-before-the-elephant-are-thus-in-their-way-like/)

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> [“We imagine we will colonize other planets, but we have barely probed this one. We have yet to find a lifeless place on Earth,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/we-imagine-we-will-colonize-other-planets-but-we-have-barely-probed/)

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> [“Most days you do not look at the stars, and in the same vein it is all too easy to ignore the other life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/most-days-you-do-not-look-at-the-stars-and-in-the-same-vein-it-is-all/)

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> [“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published anything regarding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/copernicus-theorized-that-the-earth-revolved-around-the-sun-but-it/)

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> [“Leeuwenhoek, Erwin, Woese, and others were at the fringes of their respective fields, the frontiers, to be generous. The same might be said to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/leeuwenhoek-erwin-woese-and-others-were-at-the-fringes-of-their/)

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> [“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/naming-species-is-not-big-science-it-is-like-mapmaking-or-dictionary/)

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> [“The astronomers looked up through telescopes and saw the sky in new detail. This draper, Leeuwenhoek, looked down and saw everything else. He saw…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/the-astronomers-looked-up-through-telescopes-and-saw-the-sky-in-new/)

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> [“Heaven and Earth are large, yet in the whole of space they are but as a small grain of rice. . . . How…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/heaven-and-earth-are-large-yet-in-the-whole-of-space-they-are-but-as/)

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> [“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their green palms…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/without-their-chloroplasts-plants-would-be-left-like-the-rest-of-us/)

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> [“Revelation can come in fits and starts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rob-dunn/revelation-can-come-in-fits-and-starts/)

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