“Don’t get too cosmic but we are just temporary blobs of atoms for the merest moment in infinite space!” - Russell Brand
“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo
“The ratio of CEO pay to average worker pay was 25:1 in 1960. Today it’s 320:1.” - Lynn Forester de Rothschild, Coalition for Inclusive Capitalism
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/15/business/lynn-forester-de-rothschild-corner-office.html
Illustration by John Holcroft
"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown
Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/the-snake-how-trump-appr…/….
“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
A screaming song is good to know in case you need to scream. - Ruth Krauss
Illustration by Maurice Sendak
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!', but 'That's funny'. - Isaac Asimov
Photo - Isaac Asimov and Family
Boring is the new interesting. - Guy Delancey
Images by Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg
“In the beginning, God said, the four dimensional diversions of an anti-symmetric second rank tensor equals zero, and there was light.” - Michio Kaku
"Those writers who have gotten humanity to care about the natural world — which is the world — have done so because they themselves have moved through it with a sense of wonder, each of them an Alice making a Wonderland of Earth. " - Maria Popova in Jonathan Franzen on How to Write About Nature, with a Side of Rachel Carson and Alice in Wonderland
Artwork by Jim Woodring
“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin
Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.
Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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