i decided to make some valentines
LOL I love these, especially the third one, soo much XD
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Source: carl-sagan
Sagan dropping some wisdom on the boundaries of plausibility in the universe.
I Pledge Allegiance to the Universe, One Cosmos.
Art Print by Ferrous Ward and John Thompson. Buy one at Society6.
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How can you look at this and think that the entire universe was made for us? How can you think we’re alone? This is just one galaxy. Each point of light within it is an entire sola
r system that might consist of multiple stars or even planets. Any one of those planets might harbor life or perhaps its moon has life. This is just ONE galaxy. There are hundreds of billions of galaxies out there just like it each carrying hundreds of billions of stars. Does that make us small and insignificant? The place we have reached today in our society and technology, no matter how bleak and boring it may seem, was once unimaginable to the most brilliant among us a mere 200 years ago. This ascension is only accelerating and we can’t even hope to know when it will end or how far it will take us. Imagine the imprint we will have made on the universe one day.
If none of this convinces you, and you still believe the the universe in all of its entirety is just for us (perhaps even just one type of us), if you still believe we’re alone, isn’t it the greatest insult and sacrilege imaginable to not do EVERYTHING we can to go out and explore the vast, beautiful, and wonderful universe that we can clearly see beckoning to us?
If none of this convinces you, and you still believe the the universe in all of its entirety is just for us (perhaps even just one type of us), if you still believe we’re alone, isn’t it the greatest insult and sacrilege imaginable to not do EVERYTHING we can to go out and explore the vast, beautiful, and wonderful universe that we can clearly see beckoning to us?
Richard Dawkins - The Census Research Explained
An awesome fact about Christianity in the UK. It reflects to many parts of the world though.
Paganini - Caprice no.16, Alexander Markov
16. Presto in G minor
This performance of one of the most challenging scores in the violin repertory, Paganini’s 24 Caprices, played by the internationally celebrated violinist, Alexander Markov, recorded in Reggio Emilia, Italy. It combines intense passion with extraordinary technical ability. Director Bruno Monsaingeon, himself a concert violinist, first heard Markov during a recital in New York entirely devoted to the Caprices and was left utterly dumbfounded. He says of that concert, “the technical difficulties, as if naturally overcome, had been replaced by an incandescent musical imagination which made the Paganini Caprices a thrilling experience, far removed from the school-masterly and cautious approach of most violinists.” Sir Yehudi Menuhin says “Alexander Markov will certainly leave his mark on the music-lovers of the world and in the annals of the violin virtuosi of our day. He is without doubt, one of the most brilliant and musical of violinists.” Mstislav Rostropovich says: “Once I managed to hear his performance of the 24 Paganini Caprices on TV I am certain that he is one of the most interesting young violinists of his generation in the entire world.”
Taking a look inside the cell.
Sooo very true. Look at the internet and the anti-intellectual society that America has developed.
Carl Sagan’s description of how we evolved from “Star Stuff” and are on our journey to go back to our origin - in the Stars. From “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage” episode 8, “Journeys in Space and Time”.
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