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“No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences…

— H.G. Wells

We humans, though troubled and warlike, are also the dreams, thinkers, and explorers inhabiting one achingly beautiful planet, yearning for the sublime, and capable…

— Carolyn Porco

We are at war between consciousness and nature, between the desire for permanence and the fact of flux. It is ourself against ourselves.

— Alan Watts

“[...] the diversity of our opinions, consequently, does not arise from some being endowed with a larger share of reason than others, but solely…

— René Descartes

“Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to…

— Eric Hoffer

“On Earth, humankind can step onto another continent, and without a thought, destroy the kindred civilizations found there through warfare and disease. But when…

— Liu Cixin

“The earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and…

— Carl Sagan

“s eye view of what has been promiscuously said, thought, fancied, and sung of Leviathan, by many nations and generations, including our own.”

— Herman Melville

“That it doesn’t strike us at all when we look around us, move about in space, feel our own bodies, etc. etc., shows how…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

— Freeman Dyson

"I know perfectly well that at this moment the whole universe is listening to us," Jean Giraudoux wrote in The Madwoman of Chaillot, "and…

— Frank Drake

The mind is the terriblest force in the world, father, Because, in chief, it, only, can defend Against itself. At its mercy, we depend…

— Wallace Stevens