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We live on a minute island of known things. Our undiminished wonder at the mystery which surrounds us is what makes us human. In…

— Damon Knight

Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than…

— Nikola Tesla

“Among us we represent islands of time as well as separate oceans of perspective. Or perhaps more aptly put, each of us may hold…

— Dan Simmons

“The actuality of us being cognizant and accepting of the fact we are but a speck of sand in a universe sized desert, whose…

— Hewitt E. Moore

“Vast spaces of nature; the Atlantic Ocean, the South Sea; vast intervals of time, years, centuries, are of no account. This which I think…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The undiscovered is not far away. It’s not something to be found eventually. It is contained within what is right in front of us.…

— h.e. davey

The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the…

— Thomas Huxley

Life is an island in the sea of eternity.

— Anonymous

“I will not return to a universe of objects that do not know each other, as if islands were not the long lost children…

— Lisel Mueller

“we begin to see that we are spiritually linked with people halfway around the world, and with those who lived hundreds, even thousands of…

— Hal Zina Bennett

History, insofar as it accustoms human beings to comprehend the whole of the past and to hasten forward with its conclusions into the far…

— Friedrich Schiller

Though we might like to think so, humankind is not at any special, unique or privileged location in the gargantuan, perhaps infinite, Universe.

— Eric Chaisson