In case you needed another reason to want a Porsche 914.
— Carl Sagan (38:04)“There’s a natural tendency to understand the origin of the cosmos in familiar biological terms. The mating of cosmic deities or the hatching of a cosmic egg or maybe the intonation of some magic phrase.
The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle.
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This is currently the best thing on the internet. Via Some Guy’s Blog.
— Emily Lakdawalla“I always marvel at the fact that cruising spacecraft are so far from anything in the solar system that nothing they can look at appears larger than a single pixel to their cameras.”
— Richard Feynman Lecture 2: The Relation of Mathematics and Physics (~12:24)“… it is impossible to answer…, in a way that a person can feel, the beauties of the laws of nature without their having some deep understanding of mathematics.”
— Richard Feynman“For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.”
This show changed my perspective on the universe when I saw it as a child. Everyone should watch this.
This is why science is cool. Switch to Saturn or Jupiter and check out the crazy number of moons. Be sure to zoom in.
