"The World’s Most primitive people Have Few Possessions, But They Are Not Poor. Poverty Is Not A

“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell

Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.

"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen

“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

“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

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

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk

Artwork by Neslon Makamo

“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

"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.

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.

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

Photo by Helen Levitt