Search results for “carl sagan”
Werner Herzog Recommends Five Books Every Aspiring Filmmaker Should Read
From Virgil to JFK’s assassination report, an eclectic fomenting of the cinematic imagination.
Étienne Léopold Trouvelot’s Stunning 19th-Century Astronomical Drawings of Celestial Objects and Phenomena
The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing marriage of art and science more than a century before modern astrophotography.
The Lost Art of Astropoetics: An 1881 Cosmic Masterpiece by the Forgotten Woman Who Popularized Astronomy
“No observers could lift their eyes to the golden mysteries enshrined above without being impressed with the exceeding loveliness of the shining throng.”
The Timeless Magic of the Book in the Age of Technology: Hermann Hesse on Why We Read and Always Will
“If anyone wants to try to enclose in a small space, in a single house or a single room, the history of the human spirit and to make it his own, he can only do this in the form of a collection of books.”
The Power of Cautionary Questions: Neil Gaiman on Ray Bradbury’s ‘Fahrenheit 451,’ Why We Read, and How Speculative Storytelling Enlarges Our Humanity
“Ideas, written ideas, are special. They are the way we transmit our stories … from one generation to the next. If we lose them, we lose our shared history. We lose much of what makes us human.”
Neil Gaiman on Why We Read and What Books Do for the Human Experience
“Truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are.”
The Evolution of the Book, Animated
From stretched animal skins to metal alloys to pixels, an inquiry into what makes a book.
Lying in Politics: Hannah Arendt on Deception, Self-Deception, and the Psychology of Defactualization
“No matter how large the tissue of falsehood that an experienced liar has to offer, it will never be large enough … to cover the immensity of factuality.”
Primo Levi on the Spiritual Value of Science and How Space Exploration Brings Humanity Closer Together
“For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity’s progress toward justice and peace.”
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