Famous quotes containing the words point and/or mission:
“A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.”
—Marshall McLuhan (19111980)
“We can come up with a working definition of life, which is what we did for the Viking mission to Mars. We said we could think in terms of a large molecule made up of carbon compounds that can replicate, or make copies of itself, and metabolize food and energy. So thats the thought: macrocolecule, metabolism, replication.”
—Cyril Ponnamperuma (b. 1923)