“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 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
“The middle of the road is a good place to get run over.” - Anonymous
"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 world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins
Photo by Megan Laws
“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
“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/.
“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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