"Ah, but it is hard to find this track of the divine in the midst of this life we lead, in this besotted humdrum age of spiritual blindness, with its architecture, its business, its politics, its men! How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures? I cannot remain for long in either theater or picture-house. I can scarcely read a paper, seldom a modern book. I cannot understand what pleasures and joys they are that drive people to the overcrowded railways and hotels, into the packed cafés with the suffocating and oppressive music, to the Bars and variety entertainments, to World Exhibitions, to the Corsos. I cannot understand nor share these joys, though they are within my reach, for which thousands of others strive. On the other hand, what happens to me in my rare hours of joy, what for me is bliss and life and ecstasy and exaltation, the world in general seeks at most in imagination; in life it finds it absurd. And in fact, if the world is right, if this music of the cafés, these mass enjoyments and these Americanised men who are pleased with so little are right, then I am wrong, I am crazy. I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray who finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him."
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And my reason for this, my reason is—one that you may share, possibly—I have a very low tolerance level for stupid bullshit.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Carl Sagan in an interview with Charlie Ross, 1966 (via weliveintheflicker)
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Neil DeGrasse Tyson with Stephen Colbert (by 4micaman) Topics covered: Pluto had to go, Tyson got Cameron to change the star-field in Titanic, science is wonderful, there's no impending apocalypse in 2012, etc, etc.
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A scientific poet like no other.
The only way he could be cooler is if he was auto-tuned. Luckily…
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Freedom is the freedom to say 2+2 = 4. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four (via he-tastes-like-you-only-sweeter)
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We humans long to be connected with our origins…
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Episode 1: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean (Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Carl Sagan)
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The Apophis Asteroid: What You Need To Know (by tdarnell)
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The Poetry of Science: Richard Dawkins and Neil deGrasse Tyson (by richarddawkinsdotnet)
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