"Oh Shut Up, You Silly Man [sic]!" - Oscar Brown 

Less than 3% of reporters and editors in the U.S. — and even fewer elsewhere in the world — have formal training in covering science, health, or climate. — Siri Carpenter, The Open Notebook

Image from https://stemcell.eco/

“When we come to it We, this people, on this wayward, floating body Created on this earth, of this earth Have the power to fashion for this earth A climate where every man and every woman Can live freely without sanctimonious piety Without crippling fear

When we come to it We must confess that we are the possible We are the miraculous, the true wonder of this world That is when, and only when We come to it.”

- Excerpt from Maya Angelou’s “A Brave and Startling Truth”

Artwork - Kerry James Marshall

“We have to explore to survive. As soon as we have traces of life, if you don’t diversify your environment, if as a little bacteria you don’t jump to the next rock, you don’t give yourself the best chance to survive. Staying put means death. It is true physically, spiritually and intellectually.” - Astrobiologist Nathalie Cabrol, The SETI Institute

Photography by Linden Gledhill 

“Everything in the [media art industrial complex] is unusual. It’s like hot plasma. It changes so damn fast.” - Rene Pinnell

Artwork by Abu Bakarr Mansaray.

“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.” - Joss Whedon

Photo by Dave Roth

A Song from Space: http://www.space.com/27737-comet-song-rosetta-spacecraft.html.

Image: Markus Nowak

“Perhaps the universe is constructed according to a principle of maximum diversity. The principle of maximum diversity says that the laws of nature, and the initial conditions at the beginning of time, are such as to make the universe as interesting as possible.” - Theoretical Physicist and Mathematician, Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/science/freeman-dyson-institute-for-advanced-study.html

I've wasted the greater part of my life looking for money. It's about 2% movie-making and 98% hustling.

— Orson Welles

Image: Warrior of the Worlds, a graphic novel series that finds the filmmaker leading a double life as he battles alien invaders, Scout Comics.

“My mother never allowed me to be the nice girl. I’ve always walked into a room absolutely thinking I belonged.” - Shonda Rhimes

Photo MGM, Charlotte Greenwood, 1928.

“Resistance and change begin in art.” - Ursula K Le Guin

Artwork by Fiona Staples in Saga.