What we expect to find, certainly in our own solar system, are probably simple single or multiple-cell forms of life. To get to intelligent life takes stability of conditions over huge, long periods of time.


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ELLEN KEY
Our age gives the more receptive among the young such a sense of social responsibility that one is i...
ELLEN KEY
On the question of marriage, as in all other respects, Lutheranism is a compromise, a bridge between...
ELLEN KEY
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
ELLEN KEY
The young must be prepared to experience innumerable disappointments and yet not fail.
ELLEN KEY
Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others...
ELLEN KEY
The more horrifying this world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
ELLEN KEY
Education can give you a skill, but a liberal education can give you dignity.
ELLEN KEY
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just ...
ELLEN DEGENERES
We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity an...
ELLEN DEGENERES
Like George Sand, the feminism of the present day asserts the right of free thought against the cree...
ELLEN KEY
Whereas nationalism still seeks power, honour, and glory through means that endanger other countries...
ELLEN KEY
Sometimes the adversities you go through help you become a person you are proud of, and instead of h...
ELLEN GREENE
Christmas is far and away my favorite holiday. I love everything about it, from the event that inspi...
ELLEN HOPKINS
What does it mean to be a superhero? We're all fighting for the better good. But, at the same ti...
ELLEN WONG
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
ELLEN PAGE
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
ELLEN GLASGOW
Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.
ELLEN DEGENERES
For short term relaxation, I take a hot tub. It's my best way to unblock writers' block, too...
ELLEN HOPKINS
I think everybody should have the same anger towards the injustice that's happening and the hatr...
ELLEN DEGENERES
I have sadness in me. I have anger in me. I have heartbreak in me.
ELLEN DEGENERES
Whatever you define family as, family is just a part of belonging to something that takes care of yo...
ELLEN DEGENERES
What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.
ELLEN BURSTYN
So I was at the Actor's Studio, thinking about this, and I happened to glance over to the other ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Well my taste wasn't very good when I first started out. But later, when I began to appreciate t...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I wanted to work on this central problem of killing. How you go about killing. Now, in the film I ha...
ELLEN BURSTYN
She loses 50 pounds in the film, and goes from fairly sane to totally out of her mind. So for the fi...
ELLEN BURSTYN
It's a sin to have your films not to make money.
ELLEN BURSTYN
They pulled Resurrection out of the theatres, so it was running in New York and I was nominated for ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I've lived most of my life in Manhattan, but as close as Brooklyn is to Manhattan, there are peo...
ELLEN BURSTYN
It's been awhile. My Oscar is getting kind of tarnished. I looked at it a couple of years ago an...
ELLEN BURSTYN
The interesting thing about doing a play is to find a way to make it fresh and do it as though you w...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have ...
ELLEN BURSTYN
To me, it's a very moral film. If my son were a teenager now, I would drag him to see it.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I did my famous cabbage soup diet, so I was able to do it.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I do like to work with young directors because it's such a difficult business that I think after...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that&#...
ELLEN BURSTYN
Nobody would want to leave that film to go get high.
ELLEN BURSTYN
I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'M...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow...
ELLEN BURSTYN
I couldn't kill a chicken, I couldn't kill a cow - I was a vegetarian too at that time - so ...
ELLEN BURSTYN