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- We might expect intelligent life and technological communities to have emerged in the universe billions of years ago. Given that human society is only a…
- The way life manages information involves a logical structure that differs fundamentally from mere complex chemistry. Therefore chemistry alone will not explain life's origin, any…
- Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If…
- Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.
- The universe contains vastly more order than Earth-life could ever demand. All those distant galaxies, irrelevant for our existence, seem as equally well ordered as…
- I always look on the black side of life. That way, you won't be disappointed and I'm cheerful if it doesn't work out. I'm a…
- If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the…
- The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.
- The secret of life does not lie in its chemical basis . . . Life succeeds precisely because it evades chemical imperatives.
- A permanent base on Mars would have a number of advantages beyond being a bonanza for planetary science and geology. If, as some evidence suggests,…
- An argument often given for why Earth couldn't host another form of life is that once the life we know became established, it would have…
- If we do discover more than one type of life on Earth, we can be fairly certain that the universe is teeming with it, for…
- In the frantic search for an elusive 'cure,' few researchers stand back and ask a very basic question: why does cancer exist? What is its…
- Most research into life's murky origin has been carried out by chemists. They've tried a variety of approaches in their attempts to recreate the first…
- No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen…
- Scientists have no agreed theory of the origin of life - plenty of scenarios, conjectures and just-so stories, but nothing with solid experimental support.
- Searching for alternative life on Earth might seem misconceived, because there is excellent evidence that every kind of life so far studied evolved from a…
- So how can we test the idea that the transition from nonlife to life is simple enough to happen repeatedly? The most obvious and straightforward…
- The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is entirely…
- The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
- I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the…
- To a physicist life looks nothing short of a miracle. It's just amazing what living things can do.
- In the 1990s I began to study the prospects that life could spread from Mars to Earth or maybe Earth to Mars and that maybe…
- If we're looking for intelligence in the universe I think everybody assumes that this has to start with life and so the question is: "How…
- When I was a student almost nobody thought there was any life beyond Earth. Today it's fashionable to say that there is life all over…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle