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do not underestimate yourself. And do not let your perceptions of what other people think cloud your judgment.”
No, it was his passion for genetic research and his quest to crack the complex process of aging that involved him in the COM consortium. He realized early on that there were things one could do on Mars that were simply not ethically possible on Earth.
you can take the human out of the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the human.
“Each of these sections are a facsimile of different organs: lungs, liver, kidneys. And here, look, the heart… see how it pulsates. “Incredible.” “They’re generally used for drug testing.”
The human mind was a fragile thing, kept in balance only by the company of others. We are social animals, we feel safe in the herd, and desire its acceptance. Alone, the human mind wanders with no clear purpose, nothing to keep it in balance.

