"On Earth, much of the wrenching discomfort of emesis, apart from the sensation of nausea itself, is from the coordination of many muscles it takes to counter gravity."

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“Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.”

“People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.”

“The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.”

“We saw Earth’s breath.”

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“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

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"Mathematicians are extremely lucky, they are paid for doing what they would by nature have to do anyway. One should not have a non-teaching fellowship too long, there comes a time when one must make a…"

— Harold Davenport

Mathematics1907–1969

#nature

"No paper is more seminal for the fields of quantum foundations and quantum information than the 1935 Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen paper."

— Howard M. Wiseman

Science1968

#nature

"I believe that one should not think so much about nature when painting, at least not during the conception of the picture. Make the color sketch exactly as one has felt something in nature. But my per…"

— Paula Modersohn-Becker

Art1876–1907

#nature

"Socialists have all too often failed to take ecological issues seriously enough. However, this is not a fault of socialists alone, as the fault applies even more to the liberal tradition taken as a wh…"

— John Bellamy Foster

Politics1953

#knowledge