January 2010
48 posts
“Recognize, that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars. That exploded their chemically enriched guts into the galaxy. Enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So we are all connected, to each other… biologically. To the earth….chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool. That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large. It’s not that we are better than the universe we are part of the Universe. We are in the Universe and the Universe is in us.”
—Neil deGrasse Tyson, Astrophysicist, American Museum of Natural History. From The History Channel’s series ‘The Universe: Beyond the Big Bang’
“The fact that a believer may be happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk is happier than a sober man.”
—George Bernard Shaw (via amprebel)
