“The ascension to the tenth level of intellectual heaven would be if we find the question to which the universe is the answer, and the nature of that question in and of itself explains why it was possible to describe it in so many different ways.” - Nima Arkani-Hamed
https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/a-different-kind-of-theory-of-everything
Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
“From out there on the moon, politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out, and say - Look at that, you son of bitch.” - Astronaut Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14
NASA photo of Mitchell getting lost on the moon, as we learned that our perceptions change out there!
“For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.” - Carl Sagan
Our Galaxy’s Magnetic Field Fingerprint https://www.sofia.usra.edu/multimedia/image-galleries/galactic-center
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West
Photo by Helen Levitt
A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream. - Ruth Krauss
Illustration by Maurice Sendak
"Rather than resorting to foxes and hedgehogs (a fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing), I tend to think about modern scientists as either the drillers of ever-deeper holes (now the dominant route to fame) or scanners of wide horizons (now a much diminished group). I have always preferred to scan as far and as wide as my limited capabilities have allowed me to do so." ― Vaclav Smil, author of How the World Really Works.
Artwork by Jennifer Davis.
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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