Isaac Asimov - NASTANIE NOCY
“There is a fear of the night that is begotten of ignorance and superstition, a nightmare fear, the fear of the impossible; and there is another fear of the night—of the starlit night—that comes with knowledge, when we see in its true proportion this little life of ours...”
Jaime Green • The Possibility of Life: Science, Imagination, and Our Quest for Kinship in the Cosmos
"And the sun took pity on the people, and when they fell asleep, the sun shone through the sleep and lit up the world of sleep and showed them the way. In silent light of sleep the people saw that as there was a law of gravity there was also a law of light and that the law of light was stronger than the law of gravity.“
The moment of illumination that burns across the sky of solitude.
Paul Auster • The Invention of Solitude
of the stars, and already begin to have a new enjoyment. Betelgeuse
Maria Popova • Figuring
La mitad del techo se había venido abajo, y a través del boquete se alcanzaba a ver un cielo estival de color azul oscuro. Como no había nubes de polvo radiactivo que lo empañaran, relucían miríadas de estrellas. ¿Pero qué puede significar un cielo estrellado para un niño incapaz de imaginarse lo que es no tener nada sobre la cabeza? Levantar la ca
... See moreDmitry Glukhovsky • Metro 2033
Every night, when you stand outside and gaze upon the stars, you are bathing in time as well as light.