“If you know how to look, our body becomes a time capsule that, when opened, tells of critical moments in the history of our planet and of a distant past in ancient oceans, streams, and forests.
Changes in the ancient atmosphere are reflected in the molecules that allow our cells to cooperate to make bodies. The environment of ancient streams shaped the basic anatomy of our limbs. Our color vision and sense of smell has been molded by life in ancient forests and plains. And the list goes on.
This history is our inheritance, one that affects our lives today and will do so in the future.” - Neil Shubin
“I accept the fact that like all living things I shall soon cease to exist. For a time, some of the genes I have carried will be replicated in my children, and something of me will survive in the books I have written and in the help t have given other people Death does not trouble me. I have no fear of supernatural punishments, of course nor could I enjoy an eternal life in which there would be nothing left for me to do, the task of living having been accomplished.” - BF Skinner
“Knowledge acquired by reason will dispel ignorance and thus destroy the greatest evil— fear, whose source is superstition.” - Hannah Arendt
Can’t be repeated enough really. Quote credits, Stacey May Fowles.