“A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it often leads us to misunderstand the respective roles of life forms and their interconnectedness.” ThinkingHumansLongImportantBeautifulFormRolesLong TimeUglyTendenciesCategoriesLong Time AgoUnimportantLumpsInterconnectedness Author:Gary Larson
“I'm fascinated with genetic science, and I have been for a very long time. I always look at science and technology because I think that the developments in my lifetime have been so remarkable - and we're only at the tip of the iceberg with projects like decoding the human genome.” ThinkingHumansLooksLongHas BeensTechnologyDevelopmentProjectsLong TimeLifetimeRemarkableFascinatedScience And TechnologyIcebergGenomeTip Of The Iceberg Author:Nick Rhodes
“I have divers times examined the same matter (human semen) from a healthy man... not from a sick man... nor spoiled by keeping... for a long time and not liquefied after the lapse of some time... but immediately after ejaculation before six beats of the pulse had intervened; and I have seen so great a number of living animalcules... in it, that sometimes more than a thousand were moving about in an amount of material the size of a grain of sand... I saw this vast number of animalcules not all through the semen, but only in the liquid matter adhering to the thicker part.” MenHumansLongSometimesMatterMovingScienceNumbersSawsMaterialsAmountHealthyThousandSixLong TimeBeatsSickSizeSandGrainPulseLiquidSpoiledMicroscopesLapsesGrains Of SandSick ManEjaculation Author:Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
“To live a very long time... is supposed to be the desired object of all human life. But it is not. The main thing is to ride the flood tide... How glorious it is to create! For those few moments of a lifetime when the stream is running full and deep: those are the justification for everything.” LifeHumansLongMomentsRunningObjectsLong TimeLifetimeSupposed To BeHuman LifeStreamsGloriousTidesJustificationFlood Author:James Dickey
“For a long time the only time I felt beautiful-in the sense of being complete as a woman, as a human being, and even female-was when I was singing.” HumansLongBeautifulFeltHuman BeingsLong TimeSingingFemaleOnly Time Author:Leontyne Price
“Curiosity is the essence of human existence and exploration has been part of humankind for a long time. The exploration of space, like the exploration of life, if you will, is a risk. We've got to be willing to take it.” IfsHumansLongHas BeensSpaceExistenceRiskWillingLong TimeEssenceCuriosityExplorationHumankindHuman Existence Author:Gene Cernan