“Make It Dark, Make It Grim, Make It Tough, But Then, For The Love Of God, Tell A Joke.” - Joss Whedon

"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous

I don’t do self-help. I outsource it. - Guy Delancey

“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

“Don’t get too cosmic but we are just temporary blobs of atoms for the merest moment in infinite space!” - Russell Brand

“A fact is an epiphany of God.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Photo by Nicole Ottawa.

"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.

“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut

"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

“Only in the darkness can you see the stars.” - Martin Luther King Jr.

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