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- If we ever establish contact with intelligent aliens living on a planet around a distant star ... They would be made of similar atoms to…
- In the beginning there were only probabilities. The universe could only come into existence if someone observed it. It does not matter that the observers…
- Most educated people are aware that we're the outcome of nearly 4 billion years of Darwinian selection, but many tend to think that humans are…
- Charles Darwin [is my personal favorite Fellow of the Royal Society]. I suppose as a physical scientist I ought to have chosen Newton. He would…
- Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to circle the Earth…
- From a personal perspective, I am disappointed that we have yet to really achieve a full understanding of the origins of life on Earth. What…
- If we ever established contact with intelligent life on another world, there would be barriers to communication. First, they would be many light years away,…
- It would be sad if the expertise built up during the 40 years of the U.S. and Russian manned programmes were allowed to dissipate. But…
- The stupendous time spans of the evolutionary past are now part of common culture (though maybe not in the United States Bible Belt, nor in…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz