"In the visible world, the Milky Way is……" — Bertrand Russell
"In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded."
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824 Quotes by Bertrand Russell
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Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle.
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The surviving intelligent life form on Earth is not going to be carbon-based; it's going to be silicon-based.
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