“Nothing is permanent in this world, not even our troubles.”  Charlie Chaplin

“To develop a complete mind: Study the science of art; Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.” Leonardo da Vinci

“Celebration of the Human Voice: When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice. When denied a mouth, it speaks with the hands or the eyes, or the pores, or anything at all. Because every single one of us has something to say to the others, something that deserves to be celebrated or forgiven by others.” Eduardo Galeano

“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.” Christopher Hitchens

“The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.” Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud

“When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it.” Yuri Gagarin

“Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practice it. Science is an art form and not a philosophical method. The great advances in science usually result from new tools rather than from new doctrines. If we try to squeeze science into a single philosophical viewpoint such as reductionism, we are like Procrustes chopping off the feet of his guests when they do not fit onto his bed. Science flourishes best when it uses freely all the tools at hand, unconstrained by preconceived notions of what science ought to be. Every time we introduce a new tool, it always leads to new and unexpected discoveries, because Nature’s imagination is richer than ours.” Freeman Dyson

“The remarkable feature of physical laws is that they apply everywhere, whether or not you choose to believe in them. After the laws of physics, everything else is opinion." Neil deGrasse Tyson

“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” William Shakespeare

“The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves.” Jane Goodall

“We really live in two worlds, don’t we? There’s a world that exists whether or not you exist, a world that came into being before you did. It was here before you got here. It will be here well long after you are gone. It’s the world of other people, events, other circumstances. Our education systems are pretty obsessed with that world.

But there’s another world that exists only because you exist. It’s the world of your own private consciousness, the world that came into being when you did, the world, as somebody once said, where there’s only one set of footprints, a world of your private passions, your motivations, your aspirations, your hopes, and your talents.

And I believe the future of the world around us, so far as we’re concerned, depends on understanding much more about the world within us.” Sir Ken Robinson

“There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and atomic energy: the will.” Albert Einstein

“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.” R. Buckminster Fuller