From that fateful day when stinking bits of slime first crawled from the sea and shouted to the cold stars, 'I am man,' our greatest dread has always been the knowledge of our mortality. But tonight, we shall hurl the gauntlet of science into the frightful face of death itself. Tonight, we shall asc…
— Mel Brooks, Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, Gene Wilder, imdb.com
What will be the next thing that challenges us, Toby? That makes us go farther and work harder? You know that when smallpox was eradicated, it was considered the single greatest humanitarian achievement of this century? Surely we can do it again, as we did in the time when our eyes looked towards th…
How hard to realize that every camp of men or beast has this glorious starry firmament for a roof!…In such places standing alone on the mountain-top it is easy to realize that whatever special nests we make—leaves and moss like the marmots and birds, or tents, or piled stone—we all dwell in a house…
To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them.
Destiny, she’d learned, was written in the heavens; a person couldn’t take what the universe didn’t wish to give.
The heavens call to you and revolve about you, / showing to you their eternal beauties; / and your eye is still gazing upon the earth.
— Dante, amazon.com
I’m not the silly romantic you think. I don’t want the heavens or the shooting stars. I don’t want gemstones or gold. I have those things already. I want…a steady hand. A kind soul. I want to fall asleep, and wake, knowing my heart is safe. I want to love, and be loved.
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