Status Updates From Shadows of Forgotten Ancest...

"Death serves as a poignant reminder of our own limitations and frailties—and of the bond with our ancestors who, in a way, died that we might live," (152).

"It will be enough if a few salient and generic characteristics of life on yet another obscure planet are noted for the cavernous recesses of the galactic archives," (139).

"In human history there are a precious few whose memory we revere because they knowingly sacrificed themselves for others. For each of them, there are multitudes who did nothing," (118).

"Biology is much more like language and history than it is like physics and chemistry," (92).