Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous
“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray
Illustration by Dave Merrell
“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html
“The 2008 bank bailout cost more than has been spent on NASA since it was started in 1959.” - Chris Impey
Collage by Felipe Posada.
"Events come and go like waves of a fever. We - and the journalists - live in a state of continual delirium, constantly waiting for the next news event to loom out of the fog - and then disappear again, unexplained. And the formats - in news and documentaries - have become so rigid and repetitive that the audiences never really look at them.” - Adam Curtis http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis
Illustrations by Edel Rodriguez.
Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook
Image from https://stemcell.eco/
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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