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“we live on a cosmic speck of dust, orbiting a mediocre star in the far suburbs of a common sort of galaxy, among a hundred billion galaxies in the universe.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

“We all have DNA, and it’s nearly the same. In rhesus monkeys, we’re close to 93 percent the same. In mice, it’s closer to 90 percent overall.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Skin color is basically a measure of the local ultraviolet levels, and it is controlled by relatively minor adaptive changes in the genome.”
― Bill Nye, Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation

“Freedom and liberty, the essays we wrote on them, papers for our tutors, for grades, but did we know the value of those words which we bandied about, of how precious they are, as precious as the air we breathe, the water we drink.”
― Benazir Bhutto, Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography