“It is very likely that there are many, many planets carrying life, even intelligent life, throughout the universe, because there are so many stars. By sheer chance, even if those chances are small, a great many life forms and a great many intelligences may exist.”

—  Isaac Asimov

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American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni… 1920–1992

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