Life Quotes
The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.
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"I've spent my life looking at the universe and being amazed."Vera Rubin
"The best part of being a scientist is the journey of discovery."Vera Rubin
"I've spent my life in pursuit of truth through observation."Vera Rubin
"Life is a process, not a thing."Francis Crick
"Every human being is unique, even identical twins."Francis Crick
"Life is fundamentally about the preservation and replication of information."Francis Crick
"The brain is the seat of consciousness and the center of our being."Francis Crick
"Life is continuously networking, trading, cooperating, and merging at the molecular level."Lynn Margulis
"Life is a unity, but it is a unity of great diversity and complexity."Carl Woese
"We are not separate from nature - we are part of the same evolutionary continuum."Carl Woese
"Every living thing carries within it the molecular signature of its ancestry."Carl Woese
"Life's unity lies not in appearance but in the fundamental mechanisms of heredity and evolution."Carl Woese
"We inherit not just genes but the wisdom encoded in billions of years of evolution."Carl Woese
"Life is a conversation between molecules that has been going on for billions of years."Carl Woese
"To understand ourselves, we must understand our place in the tree of life."Carl Woese
"Life's history is one of increasing complexity, but also increasing interdependence."Carl Woese
"Every cell in your body contains the molecular memory of billions of years of evolution."Carl Woese
"I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean."Grace Hopper
"I always liked to keep the sun in my eyes."Grace Hopper
"Life is a dance of chemical exchanges and cellular recognition."Lynn Margulis
"Cooperation is encoded in the very structure of living things."Lynn Margulis
"There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point."Richard Dawkins
"Life is too short to spend it being resentful."Richard Dawkins
"We are evolved creatures with evolved emotions – neither diminishes our value."Richard Dawkins
"It would be disingenuous of me to deny that computing machinery has played an important part in the direction my life has taken."Alan Turing
"I am always touched by the way people instinctively reach toward nature when they are troubled."Rachel Carson
"The wonder and mystery of life surrounds us at every turn."Rachel Carson
"Every form of life is a miracle, yet we treat them as disposable commodities."Rachel Carson
"The moment you stop learning is the moment you start dying."Grace Hopper
"Life did not take over the globe by combat, but by networking."Lynn Margulis