Bethyfly’s Reviews > See You in the Cosmos > Status Update

These words we try to use to describe it, to describe that feeling, these words like live and bravery and truth, the reason they can’t describe it all the way, and the reason that sounds or music or pictures can’t describe it all the way either, is because THEY’RE all shadows too! WORDS ARE SHADOWS TOO!

What if the times when we feel love and act brave and tell the truth are all the times we’re four dimensional, the times were as big and everywhere as the cosmos, the times when we remember, like REALLY remember, really KNOW, that we’re made of starstuff and we’re human beings from the planet Earth

And if I’m still seeing them, still seeing his shadows, still learning things...about him that I didnt know before, then doesn’t that mean that even though he died there’s something about him that keeps living? That there’s something four-dimensional, a tesseract that never dies and we can never really see

Zed said one thing he loves about Contact and about Cosmos is they show how science can be deeply spiritual too. He said that a writer he really likes once said that most religions started off being based on science, only it was the best science that they had at that time

she said the building doesn’t have a basement but it does have a laundry room downstairs with machines that take quarters. I said, Oh, you mean like a slot machine, and Terra said they’re like the lamest slot machines ever, because even if you are lucky the only thing you win is clean clothes.