August 2011
15 posts
July 2011
24 posts
“Every newspaper in America, with very few exceptions, has a daily astrology column. Astrology is bunk. Astrology is fraud. How many of them even have a weekly science column? Why that disproportion?”
—Carl Sagan in a 1989 interview with Ted Turner discussing scientific illiteracy and the need for education reform (via cwnl)
“What am I in the eyes of most people - a nonentity, an eccentric, or an unpleasant person - somebody who has no position in society and will never have; in short, the lowest of the low. All right, then - even if that were absolutely true, then I should one day like to show by my work what such an eccentric, such a nobody, has in his heart. That is my ambition, based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion.”
—Vincent van Gogh, writing to Theo van Gogh, July 1882 (via upshot)
