“It does the things we're also most concerned about. It tries very hard to stay alive. It's motivated to reproduce. It gets hungry and goes to look for food. It gets frightened. Compared to other things in the universe, we and the albatrosses are almost identical.” TryingLooksDoeHardUniverseAliveConcernedHungryFrightenedMotivatedIdenticalStaying AliveAlbatross Author:Carl Safina
“I try to keep this in mind when tied in to a rope 75 feet up in a tree... The history of ideas about our place in the universe has been a long series of let-downs for those who like to believe we are special.” TryingMindBelieveLongHas BeensIdeasUniverseTreeFeetSpecialSeriesTiedRope Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Many people believe that the grains of sand are infinite in multitude ... Others think that although their number is not without limit, no number can ever be named which will be greater than the number of grains of sand. But I shall try to prove to you that among the numbers which I have named there are those which exceed the number of grains in a heap of sand the size not only of the earth, but even of the universe” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveEarthUniverseNumbersGreaterProveLimitsInfiniteSizeSandGrainMultitudesExceedGrains Of Sand Author:Archimedes
“If I was feeling depressed or frustrated about my lot in life, all I had to do was tap the Player One button, and my worries would instantly slip away as my mind focused itself on the relentless pixelated onslaught on the screen in front of me. There, inside the game's two-dimensional universe, life was simple: It's just you against the machine. Move with your left hand, shoot with your right, and try to stay alive as long as possible.” IfsTryingMindLongTwoFeelingsHandsMovingUniverseGamesLeftSimpleWorryAlivePlayerFrontsMachinesFocusedScreensSlipsFrustratedButtonsRelentlessYou AgainStaying AliveLeft HandFeeling Depressed Author:Ernest Cline
“In some ways, the great danger for this commodified universe is our boredom with it ... There is this sort of dialectic that you could tease out, that even in this overdeveloped late-capitalist world, that boredom was still this kind of critical energy that you could work on and try to theorize and then act on, to find other kinds of belonging, other kinds of desire, other kinds of life.” WorldTryingKindDesireUniverseEnergyDangerBoredomBelongingTease Author:McKenzie Wark