Alina

“If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don’t actually live longer, it just seems longer.’1”
― Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

“Petty human squabbles over borders and oil and creed vanish in the knowledge that this living marble surrounded by infinite emptiness is our shared home, and more, a home we share with, and owe to, the most wonderful inventions of life.”
― Nick Lane, Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

“It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact