Breanne Parhiala Quotes & Sayings

We are pouring huge amounts of energy into the biological effort to understand where life came from, how it arose on planet Earth, because it matters to us; it is, perhaps our deepest question. Really, it boils down to this: Are we special? The best summation has been attributed to the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke: "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not," he said. "In either case the idea is quite staggering." Clarke is right. If we are alone, that's extraordinary. If we are not , that's even better. Were we to discover that we are one of many life-forms on a planet that is one of many inhabited worlds, we would have a new perspective on being human - on being alive, even. And if we discover that some of that life beyond Earth is intelligent, a whole new vista of possible human experience opens up before us. — Michael Brooks

To control the deaths of others - when, where, the craft of ensuring it was a cleanly sliced ending - that was possible. And in some strange way, such killing felt like controlling whatever remained of his own life. — Richard Flanagan

Nothing befalls any man which he is not fitted to endure. — Marcus Aurelius

I needed to get out and my roomies had both left me for the night so I followed the pretty one here. Did Marcus just call me pretty? — Abbi Glines

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex. — Abigail Adams

Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound. — Chuck D