Hello everyone, please spare a few minutes and let's reminisce about our place in the cosmos. - Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagan

“We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.” ― Brian Cox

"Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it." — Robert Frost

“The study of the galaxies reveals a universal order and beauty. It also shows us chaotic violence on a scale hitherto undreamed of. That we live in a universe which permits life is remarkable. That we live in one which destroys galaxies and stars and worlds is also remarkable.

From what we understand through neuroscience, consciousness seems tightly linked to the physical processes of the brain. When those processes stop, when neurons no longer fire and the brain no longer supports patterns of awareness, there is no evidence that the mind continues in

Do you feel even a tiny hope that something of your awareness lives on after you die, or do you see death as the complete end?

“Do not indoctrinate your children. Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you.” ― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion

“I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.” ― Richard Feynman

"The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief and sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life. Our remote descendants, safely arrayed on many worlds throughout the Solar System and beyond, will be unified by their common heritage,

It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met. — Yoshida Kenko

“For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.” ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star.” ― Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe

“Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group. Initially our loyalties were to ourselves and our immediate family, next, to bands of wandering hunter-gatherers, then to tribes, small settlements, city-states, nations. We have

“Whatever you're meant to do, do it now. The conditions are always impossible.” — Doris Lessing

A poetic reminder of the number of stars in our universe. 📹Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.” — Frank Herbert

“We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.” ― Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“So if we assume we are not the only civilisation in the galaxy, then at least a few others must have arisen billions of years ahead of us. But where are they?” — Brian Cox, Human Universe

“The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.” — Hermann Hesse