Dimitar Quotes & Sayings

It feels great to discover a planet, just like any discovery in science, except that it has more of the feel of exploration - you can go back and look at it. However, I can never visit. — Dimitar Sasselov

Thankfully, I'm not superstitious. — Frank Hadden

In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes. — Dimitar Sasselov

The Ten Commandments have lost their validity ... Conscience is a Jewish invention. It is a blemish like circumcision ... — Adolf Hitler

My mind was always set on joining Manchester United. How can you not go to United? I don't play for money. I play for glory and winning championships. I'm happy here. I hear people complain about the weather, there's nothing to do and the food. But, for me, it's not like that. I play for a club I love, the biggest club, and everything else doesn't matter. — Dimitar Berbatov

I always tend to think my goals are beautiful goals. That is what I want to score; beautiful goals, and create beautiful chances. — Dimitar Berbatov

I grew up in Bulgaria in a small city on the Black Sea Coast, so I was very interested in the sea, marine life, and everything related to it. But it was also a very dark place at night, so I could see the stars. And I just got very interested in it. — Dimitar Sasselov

It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically travel outside our solar system for such an exchange to take place, but we are like Columbus centuries ago, learning fast how to get somewhere few think possible. — Dimitar Sasselov

Acting manifested as the primary focus over the years but now I am stirring the pot once again with my voice. — Janine Turner

When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together. — Dimitar Sasselov

Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets ... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth. — Dimitar Sasselov

Humans are most imaginative when they need a means of self-destruction. If the world existed in an overflowing amount of happiness; a utopian state, then the suicide rate would dwarf any extinction level threat. Humans cannot be trusted with their own survival. Their minds have been trained to be blindly and unconsciously subjugated. In a time related to Heaven-on-Earth, the smallest amount of worry, will drive a human into the arms of death. This is how weak and fragile the human mind and will is. It's funny, because the best friend of humanity, is none other than Chaos itself. — Lionel Suggs

To call out for the hand of the enemy is a rather extreme measure, yet a better one, I think, than to remain in continual fever over an accident that has no remedy. But since all the precautions that a man can take are full of uneasiness and uncertainty, it is better to prepare with fine assurance for the worst that can happen, and derive some consolation from the fact that we are not sure that it will happen. — Michel De Montaigne

The best stories are like the best burgers: big, juicy, and messy. — A.D. Posey

Now in India, a village boy who has worked his way up to work at a call center, or if he gets a job working even as a busboy in a Taj or an Oberoi hotel, he'll put on his wedding announcement with pride, 'Busboy at the Taj' or 'Call center, Office Tiger.' — Marie Brenner

We love our planet Earth. We should - it is our home, and there's no place like home. There can't ever be a better place than Earth. — Dimitar Sasselov

Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things. — Nikki Giovanni

You are not going to see me puffing around the pitch. There is a saying in Bulgaria that great quality doesn't require much effort. — Dimitar Berbatov

Keep calm and pass me the ball. — Dimitar Berbatov

Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning. The comparative planetology of our solar system makes it seem like those initial conditions are hard to come by. — Dimitar Sasselov

Life and the universe compare to each other like a child and a parent, parent and offspring. — Dimitar Sasselov

My pussy game cold, when he hit it he say burrrr — Nicki Minaj

The question we ask is - if there is life on other planets, should we expect it to be based on the same molecules, i.e. be universal - or should we expect it to depend on the local conditions, i.e. on the planet's geochemistry. So to find out, we try experiments on biomolecules, starting with such geochemistry conditions. — Dimitar Sasselov

Ocean planets might be very common in the universe because water is very common in the low-temperature environments where planets form and evolve. This might be especially true for super-Earths, which can retain volatiles more easily thanks to their larger mass and surface gravity. — Dimitar Sasselov

People quite often think of the question 'Are we alone in the universe?' in terms of other civilizations out there: life forms that have reached at least our level of technological development. — Dimitar Sasselov

Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become a nuisance. — Marjorie Hillis

All you earnest young men out to save the world ... please, have a laugh. — Reinhold Niebuhr

We do care about planets like the Earth because by now we understood that life as a chemical system really needs a smaller planet with water and with rocks and with a lot of complex chemistry to originate, to emerge, to survive. — Dimitar Sasselov

My parents gave me a small telescope, then I built my own, and one thing led to another. So that's how I ended up going from being a hobby astronomer to a professional astronomer. — Dimitar Sasselov

There is immense, powerful potential in life in this universe - especially now that we know that places like the Earth are common. And that potential, that powerful potential, is also our potential, of you and me. — Dimitar Sasselov

Once you start to look at the gospels one by one, you realize that followers of Jesus were trying to understand what had happened after he was arrested and killed. They knew Judas had handed him over to the people who arrested him. — Elaine Pagels

Nobody else in the world can play the way Scholes does. The passes he produces all over the field and the way he changes the game is brilliant. Every manager would like him. But luckily he is here and playing with us. Paul practices that all the time. When he has finished training he always goes out and shoots. — Dimitar Berbatov

When we discover New Earth - a planet we could call home - the question of the 'plurality of worlds' will come front and center, reminding us yet again that we are not the center of the universe. — Dimitar Sasselov