#carl

Dont ruin my balls!" She laughs as the words leave her mouth. Better yours than mine, chica." I toss the dough balls at her, one by one, until I've got none left. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#humor #kiara #humor

A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#colour #exposure #isolation #jargon #life

Did you hear something?" "No." "Did I hear something?" "...I don't know... ↗

— Matt Groening

#humor #lenny #the-simpsons #humor

Planetary exploration satisfies our inclination for great enterprises and wanderings and quests that has been with us since our days as hunters and gatherers on the East African savannahs a million years ago. By chance—it is possible, I say, to imagine many skeins of historical causality in which this would not have transpired—in our age we are able to begin again. Exploring other worlds employs precisely the same qualities of daring, planning, cooperative enterprise, and valor that mark the finest in military tradition. Never mind the night launch of an Apollo spacecraft bound for another world. That makes the conclusion foregone. Witness mere F-14s taking off from adjacent flight decks, gracefully canting left and right, afterburners flaming, and there’s something that sweeps you away—or at least it does me. And no amount of knowledge of the potential abuses of carrier task forces can affect the depth of that feeling. It simply speaks to another part of me. It doesn’t want recriminations or politics. It just wants to fly. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#planetary-exploration #age

Those at too great a distance may, I am well are, mistake ignorance for perspective. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#debate #education #ignorance #informed #knowledge

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions. ↗

— George Carlin

#george-carlin #intelligence #intelligence

The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#cosmos #life #mystery #universe #life

‎"...the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#life-s-purpose #psychology #life

Every life is precious ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#life

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #feelings #sir-walter-scott #education