It was Jung who first said to explain the symbol as if talking to a man from mars who knew nothing about our life on earth.
Henry Reed
Maybe the search for life shouldn't restrict attention to planets like Earth. Science fiction writers have other ideas: balloon-like creatures... →
Martin Rees
It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system... →
Manned spaceflight has lost its glamour - understandably so, because it hardly seems inspiring, 40 years after Apollo, for astronauts merely to... →
Darwin and his successors taught us how our biosphere evolved, and thereby transformed our conception of humanity's place in nature. In the... →
If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one... →
The images of Earth's delicate biosphere, contrasting with the sterile moonscape where the astronauts left their footsteps, have become iconic... →
We know too little about how life began on Earth to lay confident odds. It may have involved a fluke so rare that it happened only once in the entire... →
America spends a fortune on drugs: more per person than any other nation on earth, even though Americans are no healthier than the citizens of other... →
Robert Reich
There's something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on Earth but not quite.
John C. Reilly