~asteriatic

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
- Albert Einstein

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
- Albert Einstein

The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.
- [the ever cheerful] Debussy

Oh my God, I'm losing my perspicacity aaaaahhh!
- Lisa Simpson

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.
- Aristotle

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters.
- Plato

Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
- Plato

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
- Plato

My parents just came back from a planet where the dominant lifeform had
no bilateral symmetry, and all I got was this stupid F-Shirt.
- anonymous geek joke

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
- Mark Twain

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- Francis Bacon

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.
- Lord Byron

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not man the less, but Nature more,
- Lord Byron

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
- Niels Bohr

'tis double death to drown in ken of shore.
- Shakespeare

. . . Meanwhile, Being celebrated its tumultuous festival in the measureless spaces that were its handiwork and in which it created distances congealed in icy emptiness. And he spoke of the gigantic setting of this festival, the universe, this mortal child of eternal Nothingness, filled with countless material bodies, meteors, moons, comets, nebulas, unnumbered millions of stars that swayed one another, were ordered by the effect of their gravitational fields into groups, clouds, galaxies, and super-systems of galaxies, each with enormous numbers of flaming suns, wheeling planets, masses of attenuated gas, and cold rubbish heaps of ice, stone, and cosmic dust . . .

While the Earth wheeled around its sun, so I was privileged to hear, that earth and its moon wheeled around each other, and at the same time our whole local star system moved, and at no mean pace, within the framework of a vaster but still very local star group. This gravitating system in turn wheeled with almost vulgar velocity within the Milky Way; the latter, moreover, our Milky Way, was travelling with unimaginable rapidity in respect to its far-away sisters, and they, the most distant existing complexes, were, in addition to all their other velocities, flying away from one another, at a rate that would make an exploding shell seem motionless --- flying away in all directions into Nothingness, thereby in their headlong career projecting into it space and time.

This interdependent whirling and circling, this convolution of gases into heavenly bodies, this burning, flaming, freezing, exploding, pulverizing, this plunging and speeding, bred out of Nothingness and awaking Nothingness --- which would perhaps have preferred to remain asleep and was waiting to fall asleep again --- all this was Being, known also as Nature, and everywhere in everything it was one.

- Thomas Mann

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