It is just that without stars there would be no atoms heavier than lithium in the periodic table, and a chemistry of only three elements is too impoverished to support life.
— Richard DawkinsWhat is wonderful is that when he is writing a piece of music and he gets to a point where he is running out of room, because he doesn’t have those extra notes, he manages so skillfully to rewrite the passage, so that someone who is unaware of the fact that there is a problem of range here that limits what he can do would never guess it.
— Robert Levin
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