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... one of the reasons that dark energy is super-interesting is it ... gives us a mechanism by which we can talk about the deep future of the universe.

— Lex Fridman

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"I think you have to try to walk in the middle, like, with the empathy and humility. And that's actually what science is about, is the. Is the humility."

I think the best artists aren't doing it for the prize, they aren't doing it for the fame or the money. They're doing it because they love the art.

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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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