Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive.
—
Frank Herbert: Dune
(via midnightcrammer)
A beginning is a very delicate time.
— Dune. (via therabbitdied)
Sad? Nonsense. Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is just a place.
— ~Thufir Hawat, Dune, Frank Herbert (via guesswhattimeitis)
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country, and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them, for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Walden 2, Henry David Thoreu
Lost in meaning
To get lost deep in the meaning of the most simple words, is what it is to truly feel.
Austrian National Library (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
(via wordpainting)
Winner of the 2011 Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge - Bryan William Jones and the “Metabolomic Eye”
This is a cross section of a mouse eye, stained to differentiate the ~70 different types of cells present in just that one tissue. It’s also awesome.
