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“Contingency is rich and fascinating; it embodies an exquisite tension between the power of individuals to modify history and the intelligible limits set by laws of nature. The details of individual and species's lives are not mere frills, without power to shape the large-scale course of events, but particulars that can alter entire futures, profoundly and forever.”

Source: Eight little piggies: reflections in natural history

“In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others.”

Men Humans Pleasure Events Human Nature Diversity Species Painful Delight Attractive Pleasant Annoying Disgusting Human Species Great Diversity

Book:The Nicomachean ethics

Source: The Nicomachean ethics

“Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.”

Ifs Years Wells Problem Lasts Lost Loses Answers Animal Millions Events Victim Plant Faults Species Extinction Plants And Animals

Author:Paul Watson

“Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes "good" from "bad" luck.”

Doe Seems Certain Given Understanding Events Shapes Luck Species Our Time Bad Luck Imports Brevity Shape Of Things

Author:Karen Russell

“An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.”

Mean Bigs Earth Alive Events Percent Species Extinction Asteroids Big Events

Author:Rusty Schweickart

“No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.”

Past Plans Events Regret Species Deliberate Past Events

Book:The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload

Source: The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload