Brian

“In other words, pretty much every star you see in the night sky hosts at least one planet.

The next time you find yourself outside at night, take a moment to stop and consider the implications of this result as you gaze at all those pinpricks of light.

Every one of them hosts at least one world, and most stars will have more than one planet. Solar systems are the rule and not the exception. They’re everywhere.”
― Adam Frank, Light of the Stars: Alien Worlds and the Fate of the Earth

“Disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“We can't change the world, but we can change the subject”
― James Joyce, Ulysses

“All Fungi are edible.

Some fungi are only edible once.”
― Terry Pratchett