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"You could also ask who's in charge. Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different outlook: more bacteria live and work in one linear centimeter of your lower colon than all the humans who have ever lived. That's what's going on in your digestive tract right now. Are we in charge, or are we simply hosts for bacteria? It all depends on your outlook."
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"The wealth of time is the only wealth that is more valuable than human resources."
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"A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble."
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"The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
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"It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you."
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"Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being."
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"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."
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"When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it."
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"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."
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"The very same thing, don't you see, may be looked at tragically, and turned into a misery, or it may be looked at simply and even humorously. Possibly you are inclined to look at things too tragically."
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"While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me."
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"The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of benevolent force that has anything to do with it, at all."
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"When scientifically investigating the natural world, the only thing worse than a blind believer is a seeing denier."
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"I don't know anybody who said, 'I love that teacher, he or she gave a really good homework set,' or 'Boy, that was the best class I ever took because those exams were awesome.' That's not what people want to talk about. It's not what influences people in one profession or another."
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"While the Copernican principle comes with no guarantees that it will forever guide us to cosmic truths, it's worked quite well so far: not only is Earth not in the center of the solar system, but the solar system is not in the center of the Milky Way galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy is not in the center of the universe, and it may come to pass that our universe is just one of many that comprise a multiverse. And in case you're one of those people who thinks that the edge may be a special place, we are not at the edge of anything either."
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"Passion is what gets you through the hardest times that might otherwise make strong men weak, or make you give up."
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"Some molecules - ammonia, carbon dioxide, water - show up everywhere in the universe, whether life is present or not. But others pop up especially in the presence of life itself. Among the biomarkers in Earth's atmosphere are ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons from aerosol sprays, vapor from mineral solvents, escaped coolants from refrigerators and air conditioners, and smog from the burning of fossil fuels. No other way to read that list: sure signs of the absence of intelligence."
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"Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
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"There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun."
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"If you removed all the arteries, veins, & capillaries from a person's body, and tied them end-to-end the person will die."
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