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“We have now felled forest enough everywhere, in many districts far too much. Let us restore this one element of material life to its normal proportions, and devise means for maintaining the permanence of its relations to the fields, the meadows and the pastures, to the rain and the dews of heaven, to the springs and rivulets with which it waters down the earth.”

Source: So Great a Vision: The Conservation Writings of George Perkins Marsh

“If there were biologists among the extremophiles organisms that live in extreme conditions, they would surely classify themselves as normal and any life that thrived in room temperature as an extremophile.”

Ifs Science Rooms Conditions Normal Extremes Organisms Temperature Biologist

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family.”

Knows Way Want Looks Home Science Life Is Next Planets Normal Scientist Comparison Thorough Home Life Vagabonds

Book:Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“... the atlas is a manifold. This is a typical mathematician's use of the word "is", and should not be confused with the normal use.”

Should Use Science Normal Mathematics Confused Mathematician Typical Manifold Atlas

Author:Timothy Gowers

“Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the other extreme.”

Humans Long Science Normal Extremes Tolerance Tendencies Fads

Book:Science is a sacred cow

Source: Science is a sacred cow

“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Source: The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time