[Art]

Human Beings,
[just] little bags of water held up
briefly by fragile
accumulations of calcium.

[Art]

A most observant quote from the late, great Carl Sagan:

"What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."

[Art]

Some notable quotes from the prolific mind of Arthur C. Clarke:

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”

“I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here."

“How inappropriate to call this planet "Earth," when it is clearly "Ocean.”

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

[Art]

"We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."

 - RAY BRADBURY, Zen in the Art of Writing

[Art]

"There is a fifth dimesion, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimesion as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is in the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone."

- ROD SERLING, introduction, The Twilight Zone

[Art]

"Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth."

 - Jules Verne

[Art]

"It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking."

"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."

"Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, "I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?"

 - Isaac Asimov

[Freddy]

Like those, in particular the Arthur C. Clarke ones. 

[Data]

Some good ones there Art 

I like this one:

[DemonRaven]

This is another quote my Dad used to say was "Everything that can be done, will be done."

[Art]

Well there's always the one that goes, "To dream the impossible dream..." - about some wacky guy jousting with windmills.

If we limit ourselves to what we know is possible, we'll never try to explore any more "what if's?" - my quote

"Damn the torpedoes...Full speed ahead!" - to paraphrase Admin. Farragut.

[Art]

"I gauge my life by a succession of memories...
Not all of them were without pain, but none were without meaning."
- Art - (me)

[Art]

Anagram(s) - A word or phrase spelled by rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. Read letters out of order to discover a new or hidden meaning.
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PRESBYTERIAN:
When you rearrange the letters:
BEST IN PRAYER

ASTRONOMER:
When you rearrange the letters:
MOON STARER

DESPERATION: 
When you rearrange the letters:
A ROPE ENDS IT

THE EYES: 
When you rearrange the letters:
THEY SEE

THE MORSE CODE:
When you rearrange the letters:
HERE COME DOTS

[Art]

From Italian writer, director, actor and engineer, Luciano Crescenzo:

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing;
and we can only fly by embracing one another."

[Art]

This quote (tongue-in-cheek) is worth posting in this section. Observe the dichotomy.

"Someday, robots will split into 2 sects- one that believe in an all powerful human creator, and another that believe they evolved slowly from pocket calculators and roombas."
- unknown