“The blind men before the elephant are thus, in their way, like astrobiologists or like scientists in any new field at the frontiers of knowledge, for whom it is clear that something is being revealed, but not very clear exactly… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“The blind men before the elephant are thus, in their way, like astrobiologists or like scientists in any new field at the frontiers of… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“We imagine we will colonize other planets, but we have barely probed this one. We have yet to find a lifeless place on Earth,… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Most days you do not look at the stars, and in the same vein it is all too easy to ignore the other life… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Copernicus theorized that the Earth revolved around the sun, but it was not until he lay on his deathbed that he published anything regarding… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Leeuwenhoek, Erwin, Woese, and others were at the fringes of their respective fields, the frontiers, to be generous. The same might be said to… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But it is… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“The astronomers looked up through telescopes and saw the sky in new detail. This draper, Leeuwenhoek, looked down and saw everything else. He saw… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Heaven and Earth are large, yet in the whole of space they are but as a small grain of rice. . . . How… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
“Without their chloroplasts plants would be left like the rest of us, to eat what they find. Instead they hold out their green palms… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
