生物は、実がついにそのうちの１つにわかり始めるまで、３０億年以上の間、全くその理由を知らずに地球上に存在していた。の英語

Living organisms had existed on earth, without ever knowing why, for over three thousand million years before the truth finally dawned on one of them.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nill.

I think it is certain that there is intelligent life in this universe, but the likelihood of that life coming to Earth is practically nil.

the theory that the universe originated sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small volume of matter at extremely high density and temperature

Since their first appearance on earth, men have gathered information and have attempted to pass useful ideas to other men.

As soon as we are born, the world gets to work on us and transforms us from merely biological into social units.

Science and technology have come to pervade every aspect of our lives and, as a result, society is changing at a speed which is quite unprecedented.

Just because people are corporeal born to this world doesn't mean that they understand everything about it, similarly just because somebody's died doesn't mean that they understand everything about the incorporeal world.

Sometimes I wonder if this world is just in someone's head, and he dreams us all into existence. Perhaps it's even me.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

After all, different people have different ways of eating, according to the kinds of food which they have traditionally eaten.

After all, different people have different ways of eating, according to the kind of food which they have traditionally eaten.

When we buy food, we want to know where and when the food was made, what is used in it, how long it will last and so on.

An experiment, I would learn much later when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.

An experiment, I would learn much later, when studying the philosophy of science, had to arise from a real dissatisfaction with existing knowledge.

Around his facts the scientist weaves a logical pattern or theory which gives the facts meaning, order, and significance.

All the world is divided into three types of people - finger-users, chopstick-users, and fork-users.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like our one.

The Milky Way is a vast belt of distant stars, each star a sun like ours.

The eyes themselves can become selective, ignoring part of what is there, and the brain sometimes insists on seeing things that don't exist at all.

the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications

Men have been arbitrarily interfering with and damaging nature, and now she is getting her own back [retaliating] by bringing a variety of calamities [disasters] (down) on them.

But in many ways, the bird called Alex is unusual, for it has shown the kind of mental abilities that scientists once thought only humans had.

More than ever do we need goals or leading ideas that will give purpose to whatever we are doing.

One doesn't only live their life as an individual human, without realizing it, that person lives their life within their era and with the people within that era.

Because the earth is always seen in the same position from the moon’s surface, earthrise and earthset can only be seen from an object that orbits the moon such as the Kaguya.

All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

And we can communicate so many things in so many ways - with our faces, hands, bodies, and voices. We can even write our thoughts in words.