“Science used to be about discovery, now it is about creation.” - Juan Enriquez, Founding Director of the Life Sciences Project at Harvard Business School
https://futurism.com/humans-evolve-100-years/
Illustration by Moebius.
"No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.” - Virginia Woolf
Photo of a single blade of grass under a microscope.
“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 fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Photo by Nicole Ottawa.
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show.” - Ada Lovelace
Illustration by Moebius
“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
Boring is the new interesting. - Guy Delancey
Images by Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg
“The greatest threat to democracy would never be an outside enemy but rather malefactors of great wealth who would steal our democracy from within”. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Illustration by Edel Rodriguez
“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.” - Eduardo Galeano
“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
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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