Can you hear me?

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 19, 2015

’cause death is the only thing that could have ever kept me from you….. “None saw her last meeting with Elrond her father, for they went up into the hills and there spoke long together, and bitter was their parting that should endure beyond the ends of the world.” J.R.R.Tolkien ….tanti auguri papà …


You are an impossibility

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 18, 2015

“It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!” (George Gamow)“We are an impossibility in an impossible universe.” (Ray Bradbury)


Beyond Science

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 17, 2015

“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.” Albert Einstein


Frightening but still true ….

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 16, 2015

“We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. This is a clear prescription for disaster.” Carl Sagan


Think new

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 15, 2015

“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” William Lawrence Bragg


The “magic” reason

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 14, 2015

“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we […]


The secret way forward

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 13, 2015

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin



When you give up

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 11, 2015

“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” Thomas Edison


Have you read this?

Posted by concettinasfienti on March 8, 2015

“Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.” Stephen Covey