“At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes—an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense.”
Carl Sagan (via philphys)

incenses:

”I think you could fall in love with anyone if you saw the parts of them that no one else gets to see. Like if you followed them around invisibly for a day and you saw them crying in their bed at night or singing to themselves as they make a sandwich or even just walking along the street and even if they were really weird and had no friends at school, I think after seeing them at their most vulnerable you wouldn’t be able to help falling in love with them. ”

(Source: sadweirdgirlnobodyreallylikes)

“Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.”
Lois Wyse, author and advertising executive (via nicothedoctor)

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“I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
Jonathan Safran Foer (via pulmonaire)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
Anaïs Nin (via snapadoo)

(Source: human-voices)

“In a city by the sea which was once called St. Petersburg, then Petrograd, then Leningrad, then, much later, St. Petersburg again, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street. By a long, thin window, a child in a pale blue dress and pale green slippers waited for a bird to marry her.”
from Deathless, by Catherynne M. Valente. (via riverran)
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
Martin Luther King Jr (via themagicposition)
“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via untitledfragment)