“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”

- Douglas Adams

“I mean we’ve gotta be excited about the future, we’ve gotta do things that make us want to live!  You know, it cannot be about problems every day.  I mean do you wanna wake up every morning and everything’s just a problem?  Well what inspires you and what makes you excited about the future?  There’s gotta be some things like that.”

- Elon Musk

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

- Albert Einstein

“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”

- Carl Sagan

"The universe is not indifferent to our existence -- it depends on it."

- Stephen Hawking

“Earth is but a single grain of sand in an infinite sandbox.”

- Todd Fleckenstein

“We live in strange times.”

- James Holden

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.”

- Frank Herbert