But even if in the end this longstanding pursuit of extra dimensions proves to have been a grand illusion, generations of dreamers have been inspired by it to keep on dreaming, and generations of seekers to keep on seeking. We have learned and will in the process continue to learn more about nature and our own place within the cosmos. And I believe one could make a good argument that such efforts make life worthwhile.
– Lawrence M. Krauss, Hiding in the Mirror
We miss the effects of randomness in life because when we assess the world, we tend to see what we expect to see.
– Leonard Mlodinow, The Drunkard’s Walk – How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Take me to those places, that I’ve never seen
It might make me that person, that I’ve never been
It might make me that friend, that you’ve always wanted
Yet you never had
– Masha Qrella, Saturday Night
She didn’t know that was what she wanted. She only knew that the very openness of the open world was a great danger. She wanted a closed spot somewhere – somewhere far – somewhere in an unexplored nook of the universe – where no one would ever look.
– Arcadia, from Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.
– Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poetry As Insurgent Art
I wish we could open our eyes
To see in all directions at the same time.
– Death Cab For Cutie, Marching Bands of Manhattan
Keep on following your intuition, and do things that You care about. I think that if you believe you’re a trail blazer, its tough to know where you’re going because you have no one else to follow. That I think is actually to your advantage. You don’t know what you’re in the middle of, or how it will end up, so why stop it now? 60′s analogy is great, but so is something as simple as white light in a prism. You don’t know what you’re a part of, until you step back and realize all the components.
– Andrew
This which was so kindly a present was constant.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
What is the wind, what is it.
– Gertrude Stein, Tender Buttons
Friendship goes by favour. There is always danger of a break or of a stronger power coming in between. Influence can only be a steady march when one can surely never break away.
– Gertrude Stein, Three Lives