"Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."

-- Carl Sagan

#Book Quotes #Voyages Quotes #Rough Times Quotes

“All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.”
“In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.”
“If people don’t have an understanding of what science is and what scientists do, then they can tend to think that global warming, for example, is just a matter of opinion.”
“... no problem except old age ever vanquished my mother.”

Source : Miles Franklin (2017). “Childhood At Brindabella: My First Ten Years”, p.20, ETT Imprint
“Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.”
“We should only affect compassion, and carefully avoid having any.”
“As generations come and go, Their arts, their customs, ebb and flow; Fate, fortune, sweep strong powers away, And feeble, of themselves, decay.”
“I don't care what you think about me. I don't think about you at all.”

You may also like:

Ann Druyan
Author
Bill Nye
Educator
Lynn Margulis
Biologist
Michio Kaku
Physicist
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Astrophysicist
Richard Dawkins
Ethologist
Richard P. Feynman
Physicist
Seth MacFarlane
Actor
Stephen Hawking
Physicist