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All our scientific observations of the universe and quanta can only, in the end, be observations of ourselves.

— Alan Moore De Abaitua interview (1998)

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You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.

Swamp Thing (1983)

I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.

There is an inverse relationship between imagination and money.

Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other up. And all of those conspiracies are run by paranoid fantasists and ham-fisted clowns.

The Mindscape of Alan Moore (2003)

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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