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Archaean horizon |
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The first sunrise |
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On a pristine gaea |
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Opus perfectum |
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Somewhere there, us sleeping |
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"After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. |
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Within decades we must close our eyes again. |
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Isn't it a noble and enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?" |
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The cosmic law of gravity |
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Pulled the newborns around a fire |
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A careless cold infinity in every vast direction |
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Lonely farer in the Goldilocks zone |
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She has a tale to tell |
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From the stellar nursery into a carbon feast |
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Enter LUCA |
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The tapestry of chemistry |
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There's a writing in the garden |
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Leading us to the mother of all |
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We are one |
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We are a universe |
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Forebears of what will be |
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Scions of the Devonian sea |
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Aeons pass |
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Writing the tale of us all |
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A day-to-day new opening |
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For the greatest show on Earth |
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Ion channels welcoming the outside world |
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To the stuff of stars |
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Bedding the tree of a biological holy |
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Enter life |
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The tapestry of chemistry |
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There's a writing in the garden |
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Leading us to the mother of all |
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We are one |
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We are a universe |
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Forebears of what will be |
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Scions of the Devonian sea |
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Aeons pass |
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Writing the tale of us all |
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A day-to-day new opening |
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For the greatest show on Earth |
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We are here to care for the garden |
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The wonder of birth |
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Of every form most beautiful |
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Every form most beautiful |
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We are one |
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We are a universe |
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Forebears of what will be |
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Scions of the Devonian sea |
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Aeons pass writing the tale of us all |
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A day-to-day new opening |
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For the greatest show on Earth |
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After a billion years |
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The show is still here |
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Not a single one of your fathers died young |
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The handy travelers |
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Out of Africa |
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Little Lucy of the Afar |
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Gave birth to fantasy |
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To idolatry |
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To self-destructive weaponry |
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Enter the God of gaps |
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Deep within the past |
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Atavistic dread of the hunted |
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Enter Ionia, the cradle of thought |
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The architecture of understanding |
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The human lust to feel so exceptional |
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To rule the Earth |
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Hunger for shiny rocks |
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For giant mushroom clouds |
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The will to do just as you'd be done by |
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Enter history, the grand finale |
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Enter ratkind |
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Man, he took his time in the sun |
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Had a dream to understand |
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A single grain of sand |
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He gave birth to poetry |
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But one day'll cease to be |
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Greet the last light of the library |
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Man, he took his time in the sun |
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Had a dream to understand |
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A single grain of sand |
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He gave birth to poetry |
| [15:05.140] |
But one day'll cease to be |
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Greet the last light of the library |
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Man, he took his time in the sun |
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Had a dream to understand |
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A single grain of sand |
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He gave birth to poetry |
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But one day'll cease to be |
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Greet the last light of the library |
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We were here! |
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We were here! |
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We were here! |
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We were here! |
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"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. |
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Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. |
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The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. |
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The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara. |
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Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, |
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scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. |
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scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. |
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In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, |
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in our ordinariness, that are here. We privileged few, |
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who won the lottery of birth against all odds, |
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how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from |
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which the vast majority have never stirred?" |
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"There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, |
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having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; |
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and that whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, |
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from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been,and are being, evolved." |