Quarks to Quasars
Why are things as they are and not otherwise?
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Stephen King
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Albert Einstein (via kimlovesyoo )
There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.
Niels Bohr
A planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
Michael Faraday
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Plato
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
Max Planck
I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We’ve created life in our own image.
Stephen Hawking
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
C. S. Lewis