"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
-- Carl Sagan
"That is perfectly true. There are 7.6 billion people on Earth and at least 200 billion galaxies in the universe. The Sun is an insignificant star compared with most of the 200 billion stars in our galaxy and it is stuck in one of the spiral arms well away from the galactic center."
-- tentofield
"Darwin was the first to use data from nature to convince people that evolution is true, and his idea of natural selection was truly novel. It testifies to his genius that the concept of natural theology, accepted by most educated Westerners before 1859, was vanquished within only a few years by a single five-hundred-page book. On the Origin of Species turned the mysteries of life's diversity from mythology into genuine science." -- Jerry Coyne
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Another quote for my list of favorite quotes.
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