“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.”

— Bertrand Russell

Bill Nye’s Potrait

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🚨 Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC next week to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget

• 47% cut to NASA science funding — 23% cut to the agency's overall budget

• Would be the largest single-year budget cut in NASA's history

“A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.”

― Albert Einstein

“The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence.”

― Carl Sagan

“I... a universe of atoms, an atom in the universe.”

― Richard Feynman

“I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.”

― Bertrand Russell

“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.”

― Carl Sagan

“We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side one which we preach but do not practise, and another which we practise but seldom preach.”

— Bertrand Russell

“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.”

— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech

“If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.”

— Isaac Asimov

“But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine.”

— Carl Sagan

📸 Hubble Sees a Horsehead of a Different Color, NASA ID: PIA16008

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

― Carl Sagan

“Long as men are not trained to withhold judgment in the absence of evidence, they will be led astray by cocksure prophets, and so It is likely that their leaders will be either ignorant fanatics or dishonest charlatans.”

— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays

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“We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.”

— Carl Sagan

“My parents taught me that even though it’s not forever — because it’s not forever — being alive is a profoundly beautiful thing for which each of us should feel deeply grateful. If we lived forever it would not be so amazing.”

— Sasha Sagan

“We are both clever and stupid in equal measure; capable of understanding the geometry of the universe and yet apparently incapable of managing our own small planet.”

— Brian Cox

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

“Books are patient where we are slow to understand, allow us to go over the hard parts as many times as we wish, and are never critical of our lapses. Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society.”

— Carl Sagan

Splashdown confirmed!

Let us welcome the crew of Artemis II back to our pale blue dot.

SPLASHDOWN CONFIRMED!

There we go, for the first time in over half a century, humanity has reached the Moon and safely returned.

A small step in a journey of a thousand miles.

Congratulations to the crew, NASA, and everyone involved 🍾

Thats here. That’s home. That’s us.

From Artemis II

“Our energies are directed far more toward war. Hypnotized by mutual mistrust, almost never concerned for the species or the planet, the nations prepare for death. And because what we are doing is so horrifying, we tend not to think of it much.”

— Carl Sagan

What’s your favorite Artemis II image so far?

Officially, the most distant explorers in human history.

Congratulations to the crew of Artemis II

Moon, shot on iPhone.

As the saying goes, one generation’s magic is another generation’s science.

First photo of The Artemis II eclipse.

A rare alignment where the Moon slips directly between the Sun and Earth, creating this eclipse.

The first Earthset of the 21st century

from Artemis II

The first Earthset of the 21st century

from Artemis II

Comms are back again 🛰️