“I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.” David Attenborough

“The know is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land.” Thomas Henry Huxley

“Thought is only a flash in the middle of a long night. But this flash means everything.” Henri Poincaré

“Hubble touches people. When you’re looking that far out, you’re giving people their place in the universe, it touches people. Science is often visual, so it doesn’t need translation. It’s like poetry, it touches you.” Story Musgrave

Happy 25th Anniversary Hubble Space Telescope

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” Max Planck

“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

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

“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

“Man is manifestly not the measure of al things. This universe is shot through with mystery. The very fact of its being, and of own, is a mystery absolute, and the only miracle worthy of the name. The consciousness that animates us itself central to this mystery and ground for any experience we may wish to call "spiritual.” No myth needs to be embraced for us to commune with the profundity of our circumstance. No personal God need to be worshipped for us to live in awe at the beauty and immensity of creation. No tribal fictions need to be rehearsed for us to realize, one fine day, that we do, in fact, love our neighbors, that our happiness is inextricable from their own, and that our interdependence demands that people everywhere be given the opportunity to flourish. The days of our religious identities are clearly numbered. Whether the days of civilization itself are numbered would seem to depend, rather to much, on how soon we realize.“ Sam Harris

“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

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