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Category: Science Fiction

Posted on October 12, 2025October 12, 2025

“For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.”—Carl Sagan, American astronomer, 1934-1996

Posted on March 10, 2025

“Some of the world’s greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they were impossible.”—Doug Larson, American columnist, 1928-2017

Posted on March 7, 2025March 7, 2025

“No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.”—Mary W. Shelley, English novelist, 1797-1851

Posted on December 16, 2022December 16, 2022

“I demonstrate by means of philosophy that the earth is round, and is inhabited on all sides; that it is insignificantly small, and is borne through the stars.”—Johannes Kepler, German astronomer, 1571-1630

Posted on December 15, 2022December 15, 2022

“God not only plays dice, he also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.”—Stephen Hawking, English theoretical physicist, 1942-2018

Posted on April 1, 2022

“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.”—Douglas Adams, English author, 1952-2001

Posted on February 19, 2022February 19, 2022

“When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.”—Kalpana Chawla, first Indian-born U.S. woman to fly in space, 1962-2003 (Columbia Shuttle crew)

Posted on November 17, 2021

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”—Leslie Poles Hartley, British novelist, 1895-1972

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