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“What fraction of the twinkling lights you see at night have Earths?”

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Geoffrey Marcy is an accomplished astronomer known for his discoveries and research in exoplanets. Born on September 29, 1954, he has made significant contributions to the field of astronomy throughout his career. more

“What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.”

People World Needs Life Is Hate Turns Loss Losing Breaths Decay Miraculous

Book:The Second Book of the Tao

Source: The Second Book of the Tao

“There is a powerful recognition that stirs within us when we see our little blue ocean planet in the skies of other worlds. In an instant we can see how small, fragile, and alone we all really are.”

World Littles Powerful Sky Planets Ocean Blue Recognition Instant Fragile Other Worlds Blue Ocean

Author:Carolyn Porco

“The moment is timeless.”

Moments Timeless

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.”

Writing Made Discovery Output Time Spent

Author:Ann Patchett

“Either we stay at home and become pillars of the community or we go out and tour. We couldn't really find any communities that still needed pillars.”

Stills Home Community Needed Pillars Stay At Home

Author:Mick Jagger

“Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight.”

Feels May Willing Creating Delight Doctrine Evolve Emancipation Discerning Zarathustra

Book:THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

Source: THUS SPOKE ZARATHUSTRA - A Book for All and None (World Classics Series): Philosophical Novel

“The biblical passage which says of Abraham and the three visiting angels: "And He stood over them under the tree and they did eat" is interpreted by Rabbi Zusya to the effect that man stands above the angels, because he knows something unknown to them, namely, that eating may be hallowed by the eater's intention.... Any natural act, if hallowed, leads to God, and nature needs man for what no angel can perform on it, namely, its hallowing.”

Ifs Knows Men Needs May Three Natural Tree Effects Eating Angel Intention Passages Biblical Abraham Visiting Rabbi God And Nature

Author:Martin Buber

“Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!”

Brushes Daft

Author:Paul Gascoigne

“In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should point out to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions is not that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generate them.”

Should Firsts Reality Humanity Asks Liberty Path Failing Revolution Lessons Draws Tyranny

Author:Pierre Trudeau

“Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

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