Carolyn Porco (Carolyn C. Porco) Quotes

Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

Carolyn Porco

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• Scientist
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• I do not believe in the eternity of the spirit. That contradicts my ideology.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • Believe
  • Spirit
  • Eternity

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Feels

• The dizziness in the face of les espaces infinis--only overcome if we dare to gaze into them without any protection. And accept them as the reality before which we must justify our existence. For this is the truth we must reach to live, that everything is and we just in it.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Live
  • Truth
  • Reality

• One of the high points of my life was when I suddenly realized that this dream I had in my late adolescence of combining pure mathematics, very pure mathematics with very hard things which had been long a nuisance to scientists and to engineers, that this combination was possible and I put together this new geometry of nature, the fractal geometry of nature.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Life
  • Long
  • Together

• If we do nothing, the ensuing climate catastrophe will wreck our economy - including wreaking havoc on our food production systems. All credible scientists agree on this point.

  

  Van Jones
  • Food
  • Scientist
  • Climate

• As someone who has spent many years marveling at the brilliant and painstaking work of the doctors, scientists and researchers at St. Jude, I can attest firsthand to the bone-deep commitment these men and women have made in their fight against disease. They are at it around the clock - every hour of the day, every day of the year.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Work
  • Men
  • Women

• In times of hurt and discouragement, it may be consoling for all of us to recall that no one can do anything permanently to us that will last for eternity. Only we ourselves can affect our eternal progression.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • May
  • Hurt
  • Eternity

• It's an epidemic. Instead of socialising and having proper conversations, we're staring at pictures of models in bikinis and wondering how they look like that. It's like self-loathing.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Look
  • Pictures
  • Staring

• We are but a point, a single comma, and God is the literature of eternity.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • God
  • Literature
  • Eternity

• Let's face it: Bush is just dim.

  

  George Clooney
  • Faces

• Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Writing
  • Enough
  • Eternity

• Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Want
  • Eternity
  • Snowflake

• We forget to thank the scientists that began these musical inventions and systems. The guy that invented the phonograph and gramophone - Thomas Edison!

  

  will.i.am
  • Guy
  • Forget
  • Musical

• Joy wants the eternity of all things, wants deep, wants deep eternity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Joy
  • Eternity
  • All Things

• Use your own light and return to the source of light. This is called practicing eternity.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Use
  • Eternity
  • Source Of Light

• [Thine] face is not worth sunburning.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Faces
  • Hilarious

• When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

  

  William Jacob Holland
  • Growing
  • Animal
  • Eternity

• I never enquire into the origin of things, all Origin is a fallacy (in this I follow Nietzsche: origin is a very contested Cartesian illusion of reliability). Everything reaches us filtered through culture.

  

  Agustin Fernandez Mallo
  • Culture
  • Origin
  • Fallacy

• Anyone who makes plans for after the revolution is a reactionary.

  

  Mikhail Bakunin
  • Revolution
  • Plans

• Being a scientist and staring immensity and eternity in the face every day is as grand and inspiring as it gets.

  

  Carolyn Porco
  • Faces
  • Eternity
  • Scientist