Francisco

“A pair of wings, a different respiratory system, which enabled us to travel through space, would in no way help us, for if we visited Mars or Venus while keeping the same senses, they would clothe everything we could see in the same aspect as the things of Earth. The only true voyage, the only bath in the Fountain of Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to see the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to see the hundred universes that each of them sees, that each of them is; and this we can do with an Elstir, with a Vinteuil; with men like these we do really fly from star to star.”
― Marcel Proust, The Captive

“He who possesses science and art also has religion; but he who possesses neither of those two, let him have religion!”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Xenien

“If you can't give me poetry, can't you give me "poetical science"?”
― Ada Lovelace

“Cuando uno extraña un lugar, lo que realmente extraña es la época que corresponde a ese lugar; no se extrañan los sitios, sino los tiempos.”
― Jorge Luis Borges