Quotes

Everclear - I Will Buy You a New Life

Not a wonderful song, but this is great:

I hate those people who love to tell you

"Money is the root of all that kills"

They have never been poor

They have never had the joy of

A welfare Christmas

One of the telescopes of The Very Large Array.

What humans may have lacked in physical attractiveness, they made up for in gullibility. You could tell them anything in a convincing enough voice and they would believe it. 

Anything, of course, except the truth.

-The Humans, Matt Haig (a good book)

As with astronomy, the difficulty of recognizing the motion of the earth lay in abandoning the immediate sensation of the earth’s fixity and of the motion of the planets. So in history, the difficulty of recognizing the subjection of personality to the laws of space, time, and cause lies in renouncing the direct feeling of the independence of one’s own personality. 

But as in astronomy, the new view said: “It is true that we do not feel the movement of the earth, but by admitting its immobility we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting its motion (which we do not feel) we arrive at laws.” So also in history, the new view says: “It is true that we are not conscious of our dependence, but by admitting our free will we arrive at absurdity, while by admitting our dependence on the external world, on time, and on cause, we arrive at laws.” 

In the first case, it was necessary to renounce the consciousness of an unreal immobility in space and to recognize a motion we did not feel; in the present case, it is similarly necessary to renounce a freedom that does not exist [free will] and to recognize a dependence of which we are not conscious.

-Babylon's Ashes (book six of The Expanse; the TV adaptation is really interesting - just some very fascinating choices)