"Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
- Carl Sagan
"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time."
- Carl Sagan
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
- Carl Sagan
"For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
- Carl Sagan
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
- Carl Sagan
"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
- Carl Sagan
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
- Carl Sagan
"The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
- Carl Sagan
"Nothing demoralizes like uncertainty."
- Shay Hill
"Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance."
- Nassim Taleb
"A Stoic is a Buddhist with attitude, one who says “f*** you” to fate."
- Nassim Taleb
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
- Marcus Aurelius
"My best definition of a nerd: someone who asks you to explain an aphorism"
- Nassim Taleb
"A good book gets better at the second reading. A great book at the third. Any book not worth rereading isn't worth reading."
- Nassim Taleb
"The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts."
- Marcus Aurelius
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
- Cicero
"Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions."
- Nassim Taleb
"We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions."
- Nassim Taleb
"Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Work destroys your soul by stealthily invading your brain during the hours not officially spent working; be selective about professions."
- Nassim Taleb
"If you do not take risks for your opinion, you are nothing."