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“To remember what they had lost and what they became, what had been torn apart and what had come together, the fugitives and refugees and multitudes in flight were called the Sisala, which means ‘to come together, to become together, to weave together.”
― Saidiya V. Hartman, Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route

“We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are.”
― Carl Sagan, Contact

“The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.”
― Djuna Barnes, Nightwood

“Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful”
― George E.P. Box, Empirical Model-Building and Response Surfaces