"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
Isaac Asimov and other great minds – including Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynmen, Marie Curie, and E. O. Wilson – define science. (via explore-blog)
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"Fashion is what seems beautiful now but looks ugly later; art can be ugly at first but it becomes beautiful later."
"We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy’s impossible. But if a piece of fiction can allow us imaginatively to identify with a character’s pain, we might then also more easily conceive of others identifying with our own. This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside. What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really human is probably to be unavoidably sentimental and naïve and goo-prone and generally pathetic. Personally, yeah, I’m a Platonist. I think that God has particular languages, and one of them is music and one of them is mathematics. But young adults of the nineties - who got to watch all this brave new individualism and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation - today’s subforties have very different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without even once having loved something more than yourself. You think it makes you a fraud, the tiny fraction anyone else ever sees? Of course you’re a fraud, of course what people see is never you. And of course you know this, and of course you try to manage what part they see if you know it’s only a part."
David Foster Wallace (via yetuntold)
This short, 6-minute film documents Chris Jordan’s photography project on Midway Island, where thousands of baby albatrosses die from ingesting plastic found in the Pacific Ocean. Jordan explains the project and articulates why art that might inspire grief or shame or despair is important. I don’t want to overwhelm or traumatize, he says, but when we allow ourselves to feel anger or grief, those are legitimate human responses that need to happen so that collectively we can make new choices.
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Symmetry (by Everynone)
Welcome to Flowerville (by manurs.)
