“Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just as mightily in the service of wonder and the two elements are complementary, not independent or opposed. The thought fills me with awe - a mechanical contraption that could fit in the back of a pickup truck, traveling through space for twelve years, dodging around four giant bodies and their associated moons, and finally sending exquisite photos across more than four light-hours of space from the farthest planet in our solar system.” YearsTwoBodyLightHoursSpaceWonderFourPlanetsFitMoonElementsIntellectualIndependentWorthyGiantsAweTwelveTruckExquisiteSolar SystemComplementaryPickupsPickup Trucks Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“If the earth should cease to attract its waters to itself all the waters of the sea would be raised and would flow to the body of the moon.” IfsShouldBodyWould BeEarthWaterSeaMoonFlowRaisedCease Author:Johannes Kepler
“Up from the dark the moon begins to creep; and now a pallid, haggard face lifts she above the water-line: thus from the deep a drowned body rises solemnly.” BodyFacesWaterLinesDarkMoonLiftsCreepsHaggard Book:The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich Source: The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich