Ambitious title.

“My parents died years ago. I was very close to them. I still miss them terribly. I know I always will. I long to believe that their essence, their personalities, what I loved so much about them, are - really and truly - still in existence somewhere. […] Plainly, there’s something within me that’s ready to believe in life after death. And it’s not the least bit interested in whether there’s any sober evidence for it. So I don’t guffaw at the woman who visits her husband’s grave and chats him up every now and then, maybe on the anniversary of his death. It’s not hard to understand. And if I have difficulties with the ontological status of who she’s talking to, that’s all right. That’s not what this is about. This is about humans being human.”
— Carl Sagan on why sometimes it’s good to temporarily forgo your beliefs in order to respect someone else’s (via applepiesfromscratch)

(Source: carl-sagan, via astronomerinprogress)

(via likeaphysicist)

(Source: questionall, via sagansense)

“The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.”
— Alan Watts (via ikenbot)

(Source: teenagezoo, via kenobi-wan-obi)
“It doesn’t make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don’t really see ourselves. We don’t watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled up and silent with chests rising and falling with our own rhythm. We don’t see ourselves reading a book, eyes fluttering and glowing. You don’t see yourself looking at someone with love and care inside your heart. There’s no mirror in your way when you’re laughing and smiling and happiness is leaking out of you. You would know exactly how bright and beautiful you are if you saw yourself in the moments where you are truly yourself.”
— (via ikenbot)

(via kenobi-wan-obi)
theist: I will pray for you my good friend, hope all goes well
antitheist: OH HELL FUCKING NO YOU DIDNT
ucresearch: “The vast majority of the mass in the universe is completely invisible. It’s not made of atoms — in fact it’s not even made of the things that atoms are made of: protons, neutrons, and electrons. It’s something completely different.” — Joel Primack, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz [Calvin and Hobbes was created by the wonderful Bill Waterson]

ucresearch:

“The vast majority of the mass in the universe is completely invisible. It’s not made of atoms — in fact it’s not even made of the things that atoms are made of: protons, neutrons, and electrons. It’s something completely different.”

— Joel Primack, Professor of Physics, UC Santa Cruz

[Calvin and Hobbes was created by the wonderful Bill Waterson]

(via kenobi-wan-obi)

karmaplus:

“Our story is the story of the universe. Every piece of everyone, of everything you love and everything you hate, of the thing you hold most precious, was assembled by the forces of nature in the first few minutes of the life of the universe, transformed in the hearts of the stars or created in their fiery deaths.

And when you die, those pieces will be returned to the universe in the endless cycle of death and rebirth. What a wonderful thing it is to be part of that universe. And what a story, what a majestic story.”

Professor Brian Cox, Wonders of the Universe.

(via oplik)

sci-fact: “ I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring. ”         ~ Richard Feynman, last words; (Died 25 years ago today, February 15, 1988)

sci-fact:

“ I’d hate to die twice. It’s so boring. ”
         ~ Richard Feynman, last words; (Died 25 years ago today, February 15, 1988)

(via fuckyeahquantummechanics)

(Source: doctor-lewis, via oplik)