Quote of the day, mostly related to astronomy.

[messier 111]

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape. Jay S. Walker

[messier 111]

Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy. Sam Harris

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It's the way the human brain works: when enough events occur in a pattern, we stop thinking and go into macro mode. N. K. Jemisin

[messier 111]

It's a tribute to the human brain that anyone is able to function out there on television in a talk situation that is entirely artificial. Dick Cavett

[kt4hx]

“Two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe.” (Albert Einstein)


“I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.” (Issac Newton)

[SparWeb]

Every boat is copied from another boat... Let’s reason as follows in the manner of Darwin. It is clear that a very badly made boat
will end up at the bottom after one or two voyages, and thus never be copied... One could then say, with complete rigor, that it is
the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others.
Emile Chartier, 1908

[messier 111]

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.” —Kurt Vonnegut (March 2015)

[messier 111]

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”—Oscar Wilde (June 1954)

[messier 111]

“If you can’t be kind, at least be vague.” —Judith Martin (September 1997)

[messier 111]

“The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they’re okay, then it’s you.” —Rita Mae Brown (December 2002)

[messier 111]

. “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” —Dorothy Parker (March 2005)

[messier 111]

“Doing nothing is very hard to do. You never know when you’re finished.”—Leslie Nielsen (April 2007)

[messier 111]

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. Ella Maillart

[messier 111]

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus

[messier 111]

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin. William Shakespeare

[messier 111]

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. John Lubbock

[messier 111]

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller

[messier 111]

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. Jules Renard

[helicon]

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. R. Buckminster Fuller

Yes, but sometimes they have similar color schemes.

[messier 111]

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. Lao Tzu