“Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some… — 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
