“The Search For Life Beyond Earth Is Not So Much A Search Anymore If Everything We Are, We Live On,

"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.

“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/

“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal as time will show.” - Ada Lovelace

Illustration by Moebius

“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann

Illustration by Ture Ekroos

“Sometimes reality is too complex. Stories give it form.” - Jean Luc Godard

Artwork by Marina González Eme

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people that you never met. - Doug Stanhope

“The 2008 bank bailout cost more than has been spent on NASA since it was started in 1959.” - Chris Impey

Collage by Felipe Posada.

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon

Photo by Dave Roth

Hard work pays off in the future; laziness pays off now. - Steven Wright