Nuno

“I am too high born to be propertied, To be a second at control, Or useful serving-man and instrument To any sovereign state throughout the world.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience and Other Essays

“Of course, supernatural acts are what miracles are all about. They are, after all, precisely those things that circumvent the laws of nature. A god who can create the laws of nature can presumably also circumvent them at will. Although why they would have been circumvented so liberally thousands of years ago, before the invention of modern communication instruments that could have recorded them, and not today, is still something to wonder about.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing

“Fechávamos as janelas. Trancávamos a porta. Era como se estivéssemos outra vez lá fora, longe das intrigas mesquinhas em que esta gente se perde e perde a vida...

(Pausa)

Mas não pôde ser e, agora, estou sozinha. Sozinha e rodeada de inimigos numa terra hostil a tudo o que é grande, numa terra onde se cortam as árvores para que não façam sombra aos arbustos...”
― Luís de Sttau Monteiro, Felizmente Há Luar!

“One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies made of stardust.”
― Lawrence M. Krauss, A Universe from Nothing