• It is not to see something first, but to establish solid connections between the previously known and the hitherto unknown, that constitutes the essence of scientific discovery. It is this process of tying together which can best promote true understanding and real progress.
    ~ Hans Seyle, M.D., The Stress of Life
  • Searching for a vehicle to travel to the edge of the cosmos, we all settled on a beam of light
    ~ Rishabh Nakra
  • If you can see a thing whole," he said, "it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives...But close up, a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death."
    ~ Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  • Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.
    ~ Lewis Carroll, Through the looking-Glass
  • Sometimes, when I'm careless, I believe the wound is also the place where the skin re-encounters itself, asking of each end, where have you been?
    ~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

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