Hard Work Pays Off In The Future; Laziness Pays Off Now. - Steven Wright

“The search for life beyond Earth is not so much a search anymore if everything we are, we live on, interact with and observe is alive. Rather, it becomes an exploration of life’s expression of diversity and complexity– not in the universe but by the universe.” - Nathalie Cabrol

Painting by Simon Stalenhag.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-quantum-of-life/

“You experience it to be within your power to stop reading this paragraph. Apparently, you freely decided to continue. Perhaps you are curious how it will unfold. But you strongly sense that you could have done otherwise; you could have stopped reading (and you still can). However, from what we know about the laws of nature, it is not clear how the brain could control a neural process that would result in different outcomes when starting from the same brain state. It is also unclear how your interest in the contents of this paragraph led to the neural process that culminated in you reading it.” - Uri Maoz

Illustration by Paolo Uberti.

https://www.chapman.edu/our-faculty/uri-maoz

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2019/09/free-will-bereitschaftspotential/597736/

"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland

Artwork by Jim Woodring

“Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornell West

Photo by Helen Levitt

“Beyond that horizon lie parts of the universe that are too far away. There hasn’t been enough time in the 13.8 billion year history of the universe for their light to have reached us.” - Cosmos

Illustration by Julien Pacaud

“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku

“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” - Mae Jemison 

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. 

https://www.instagram.com/pamelaphatsimo/

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

“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