Quote #95

We're the kind of species that needs a frontier - for fundamental biological reasons. Every time humanity stretches itself and turns a new corner, it receives a jolt of productive vitality that can carry it for centuries. There is a new world next door. And we know how to get there.

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  2. When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you never forget it.
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  6. Comets giveth and comets taketh away.
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  8. The nature of life on Earth and the search for life elsewhere are two sides of the same question: the search for who we are.

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