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Trailblazing Astronomer Maria Mitchell on How We Co-Create Each Other and Recreate Ourselves Through Friendship

“Whatever our degree of friends may be, we come more under their influence than we are aware.”

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The World’s First Celestial Spectator Sport: Astronomer Maria Mitchell’s Stunning Account of the 1869 Total Solar Eclipse

“All nature rejoiced, and … we rejoiced with Nature.”

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The Stars: A Mythopoeic Masterpiece Serenading the Night Sky Through Myths and Stories from Around the World

“Light gives light because it is its nature.”

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Jeanette Winterson on How Art and Storytelling Redeem Our Inner Lives

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound… This makes our own death bearable.”

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Power and Tenderness: Robert Penn Warren on Democracy, Art, and the Integrity of the Self

“[Art] is the process by which… a society comes to understand itself, and by understanding, discover its possibilities of growth.”

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John Quincy Adams on Efficiency vs. Effectiveness, the Proper Aim of Ambition, and His Daily Routine

“The spark from Heaven is given to few — It is not to be obtained by intreaty or by toil.”

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning on Love and the Seductions of Honesty

“You must prepare yourself to forbear and to forgive — will you?”

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Alain de Botton on Infatuation

“The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.”

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The Universe in Verse 2017: Full Show

An evening of poetry celebrating great scientists and scientific discoveries, read by beloved artists, writers, and musicians.

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The Venus Hottentot: Elizabeth Alexander Reads Her Stirring Poem About the Roots of Racism and the Misuses of Science

“Elegant facts await me.”

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Search results for “Adrienne Rich”

“Whatever our degree of friends may be, we come more under their influence than we are aware.”

“All nature rejoiced, and … we rejoiced with Nature.”

“Light gives light because it is its nature.”

“Creative work bridges time because the energy of art is not time-bound… This makes our own death bearable.”

“[Art] is the process by which… a society comes to understand itself, and by understanding, discover its possibilities of growth.”

“The spark from Heaven is given to few — It is not to be obtained by intreaty or by toil.”

“You must prepare yourself to forbear and to forgive — will you?”

“The only people who can still strike us as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.”

An evening of poetry celebrating great scientists and scientific discoveries, read by beloved artists, writers, and musicians.

“Elegant facts await me.”

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