"We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also……" — Carolyn Porco
"We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable of the magnificent."
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14 Quotes by Carolyn Porco
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Cassini is different -- it's a mission of enormous scope and is being conducted in grand style. It is much…
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While I was there, Voyager flew by Saturn. I got involved with a person who was a member of the…
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Nothing will ever be what the Voyager mission was,
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For planetary explorers like us, there is little that can compare to the sighting of activity on another solar system…
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We had convinced ourselves that conditions wouldn't be right for seeing spokes on the lit side of the rings until…
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Remember, Voyager was just a flyby, Cassini is in orbit. We have the opportunity for monitoring them and their behavior,…
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We have at last glimpsed the surface of the fabled world, Titan, Saturn's largest moon and the greatest single expanse…
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All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live…
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Spokes are one of those Saturn-system phenomena that we are keenly interested in understanding.
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The same spiritual fulfillment that people find in religion can be found in science by coming to know, if you…
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Let’s teach our children from a very young age about the story of the universe and its incredible richness and…
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Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it…
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And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying…
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Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we…
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I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just,…
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It looked like an old painting, but real - everything achingly idyllic in the morning light - and I thought…
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Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem.…
— Steven Pinker
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As Aristotle wrote a long, long time ago, and I'm paraphrasing here, the goal is to avoid mediocrity by being…
— Georges St-Pierre
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So this is why I can't agree with "don't feed the trolls." When millionaire celebrity broadcasters and entire publications start…
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Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t…
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Somehow this literary genre, which most people condemned, acted as a sort of counterbalance to Charles's soul; it was the…
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Stop waiting. Feel everything. Love achingly. Give impeccably. Let go.
— David Deida
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Love and Other Theories challenged my assumptions, dared me to think differently and burrowed into my heart. A heart-achingly beautiful…
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All my movies are achingly personal.
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