There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.
Hugh DownsI've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.
Hugh DownsHow many times has the end of the world been predicted? The same number of times the prediction has proved false.
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