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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an 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? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to read more
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.
All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkein.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. -Henri Bergson.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them. -Epictetus.
Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little read more
Sometimes men are scared of me. You become a kind of an icon on television, and people are a little bit unsure, careful. It's funny.
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort read more
What you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing; it also depends on what sort of person you are. -C. S. Lewis.
