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I think we'll get there in the not too distant future.
Your distant ancestors loved that shape and found beauty in the skill needed to make it, even before they could put their love into words.
No, you need to set people's souls ablaze with visions of exploring distant shores."
We can talk about the distant past, plan for the distant future, discuss ideas with each other, so that the ideas can grow from the accumulated wisdom of a group.
One of the things we've learned from Darwin is that the human species is only one among millions of cousins, some close, some distant.
And as far as isolation goes, when we as a species do colonize distant planets, there will be the isolation and the environmental changes that could produce evolution in the natural way.
This is a a highly condensed clump of neutral matter, spinning in the distant universe.
Planetary systems outside our own are like distant cities whose lights we can see twinkling, but whose streets we can't walk.
It's a living relic of the distant past.
I'd love to tell you we're making fantastic progress in this thing, and I expect to be back on this stage sometime in the not too distant future, to tell you about it.
And the idea was to sort of contrast something very cold and distant and abstract like the universe into the familiar form of a teddy bear, which is very comforting and intimate.
We started with the understanding that researchers and reporters are distant cousins, equally storytellers and social analysts.
Well resisting temptation is hard, as the 19th century English economist Nassau William Senior said, "To abstain from the enjoyment which is in our power, or to seek distant rather than immediate results, are among the most painful exertions of the human will."
And the poem goes: "On the idle hill of summer, lazy with the flow of streams, hark I hear a distant drummer, drumming like a sound in dreams, far and near and low and louder on the roads of earth go by, dear to friend and food to powder, soldiers marching, soon to die."
WG: Then, none of us will be able to remain distant.
Still, our physical reality here on Earth is intimately connected to those distant, invisible galaxies.
And then they stood at two hilltops, two miles distant, and they did the same thing, on the assumption from Galileo that if light had a discernible speed, he'd notice a delay in the light coming back from his assistant's lamp.
He lived in Paris, and he set up two experimental stations, roughly 5.5 miles distant, in Paris.
And so we can also now virtually gain access to this even more distant organ system that, from the skeleton alone, has long decomposed.
And today, after briefly describing what they found, I'm going to tell you about a highly controversial framework for explaining their discovery, namely the possibility that way beyond the Earth, the Milky Way and other distant galaxies, we may find that our universe is not the only universe, but is instead part of a vast complex of universes that we call the multiverse.
Okay, part one starts back in 1929 when the great astronomer Edwin Hubble realized that the distant galaxies were all rushing away from us, establishing that space itself is stretching, it's expanding.
And they did this by painstaking observations of numerous distant galaxies, allowing them to chart how the expansion rate has changed over time.
You see, we learned that our universe is not static, that space is expanding, that that expansion is speeding up and that there might be other universes all by carefully examining faint pinpoints of starlight coming to us from distant galaxies.
And this picture here was taken the final night from a distant cliff about two miles away, where the contents of the capsule were being beamed into space.
That's why you need not just be training in one specialty, but also acquire breadth in other fields, related to and even distant from your own initial choice.
It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it's never going to be quenched.
They help us stay connected with people in our social network that we would otherwise grow distant from, if we weren't playing games together.
And perchance, if you can always keep this picture in your mind, that when we convene maybe in the distant future, in 2020, that picture will look very different.
And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.
Life magazine introduced generations of people to distant, far-off cultures they never knew existed through pictures.
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