Open Mouth, Already Big Mistake. - Zen Saying

“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.

”The universe is an intelligence test.” - Timothy Leary

“Your intuition and your intellect should be working together, making love. That’s how it works best.” Madeleine L’Engle

Photo by http://photocosma.net/.

"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.

Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

“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

A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream. - Ruth Krauss

Illustration by Maurice Sendak

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” - Arthur C. Clark

Illustration by Frank Kelly Freas

No star is ever lost we once have seen. We always may be what we might have been.

— Adelaide Anne Procter

The 2012 solar storm that missed Earth by nine days.