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Category: Biology

Posted on October 12, 2025October 12, 2025

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”—Carl Sagan, American astronomer, 1934-1996

Posted on July 9, 2025

“The Congress shall have Power To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts….”—Article I, Section 8, Clause 8; U.S. Constitution

Posted on May 22, 2023May 22, 2023

“My soul can find no staircase to heaven unless it be through Earth’s loveliness.”—Michelangelo, Italian sculptor, 1475-1564

Posted on March 17, 2023March 16, 2023

“All we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.”—William Harvey, English physician & physiologist, 1578-1657

Posted on December 17, 2022December 20, 2022

“He that hath no fools, knaves, nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.”—Thomas Fuller, English physician, 1654-1734

Posted on October 23, 2022

“The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you are learning you’re not old.”—Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, U.S. Nobel laureate medical physicist, 1921-2011

Posted on September 24, 2022September 24, 2022

“A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.”—Samuel Butler, English novelist, 1835-1902

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