Daniel Martins

“Maybe I’ll post a consumer review. “Brought product to surface of Mars. It stopped working. 0/10.”
― Andy Weir, The Martian

“One clear theme of evolutionary history is the cumulative nature of biological diversity. Individual species (of nucleated organisms at least) may come and go in geological succession, their extinctions emphasizing the fragility of populations in a world of competition and environmental change. But the history of guilds—of fundamentally distinct morphological and physiological ways of making a biological living—is one of accrual. The long view of evolution is unmistakably one of accumulation through time, governed by rules of ecosystem function. The replacement series implied by the Generations of Abraham approach fails to capture this basic attribute of biological history.”
― Andrew H. Knoll, Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth

“Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

“But I don't think building sand castles in the air is such a terrible thing to do, as long as you don't take it too seriously.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl