Famous Quotes from Astrophysicists
We are bathing in mystery and confusion
Carl Sagan said The sun is a giant fireball in the sky
my son remembers out of the blue one morning
and the snaps on your shirt are named for the noise
they make Maybe zippers too With a snap
of their fingers some God really started
something huh But after that someone else
had to walk the dog and fix the storm door
It’s swinging open banging against the house
every time someone comes in or out Bang
there it goes again As a child I used to worry
the Earth would stop spinning just lose the strength
or maybe the will But that’s just projection
You take all your fears and weakness and
give them away to someone else because
good riddance If the sun exploded we wouldn’t
know it for 8 minutes and 20 seconds
then we would vaporize Neil deGrasse Tyson
How is your will these days How is your faith
What urges do you pursue or is it feed
What urges are you feeding I buy too much
heavy cream when I shop at the market But
Hawking warned us that The universe will always
be much richer than our ability to understand it
Buttons might be the more interesting fastener
How doing the loops becomes a little trick you do
with your fingers Your brain can be doing
something else completely I don’t know how
this closet got so disorganized my wife concedes
or why we own so many jackets
-- Jeffrey Hermann, TFJ Issue Two: Energy
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