#ed

The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove. ↗

— Freeman John Dyson

#immanuel-velikovsky #jim-carter #lord-kelvin #margaret-wertheim #physics-on-the-fringe

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #god #physics #imagination

But what I thought, and what I still think, and always will, is that she saw me. Nobody else has ever seen me — me, Jenny Gluckstein — like that. Not my parents, not Julian, not even Meena. Love is one thing — recognition is something else. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#love #love

Isn’t that the greatest tragedy? When someone rejects us, no matter how they abuse our love, we hope against reason that somehow they will come back to us. ↗

— Suzanne Elizabeth Anderson

#love #rejection #tragedy #love

Love, that moves the sun and the other stars - L'amor che move il sole e l'altre stelle. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#love #sun #love

He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride. ↗

— John Lennon

#because #belly #biggest #bones #come

She was with me. She did all of those things and so many more, things I would never tell anyone, and she never even loved me. Now that’s love. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#jonathan-safran-foer #love

It's just a stupid sword," she said, aloud this time... ... but it wasn't. Needle was Robb and Bran and Rickon, her mother and her father, even Sansa. Needle was Winterfell's grey walls, and the laughter of its people. Needle was the summer snows, Old Nan's stories, the heart tree with its red leaves and scary face, the warm earthy smell of the glass gardens, the sound of the north wind rattling the shutters of her room. Needle was Jon Snow's smile. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#needle #sibling-s-love #stark #love

Gabe?" The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love", Jonas whispered. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#sleep #stirred #whispered #love

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM. ↗

— Amit Ray

#meditation #spiritual-growth #spiritual-growth