The Most Exciting Phrase To Hear In Science, The One That Heralds New Discoveries, Is Not 'Eureka!',

"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

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Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. — George Orwell

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“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” - Anais Nin

"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown 

Illustration by Waldemar Kazak.

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“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.” - Mae Jemison 

Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum. 

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Comprehension declines as the number of hyperlinks in a document increases. - Rolf Dobelli https://www.theguardian.com/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

Illustration by John Holcroft

"In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter." - Johnathan Harris

"[The news] is like that friend you have — who always sees the worst in everything. You go out for coffee and feel empty afterward. Finally, you stop going. So what would be better? I make the case for routinely and systematically reporting out hope, agency and dignity in every story." — Amanda Ripley https://www.amandaripley.com/blog/i-have-a-secret-i-hid-it-for-years

"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

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.