Between - Quotes
Death doesn`t just take someone, it misses someone else, and in the small distance between being taken and being missed, lives are changed.
When the technology's job is to show you the world, it ends up sitting between you and reality, like a camera lens.
The motives by which we act are inscribed in our intimate structure as mammals, as hunters, as social beings: reason illuminates these connections, it does not generate them. We are not, in the first place, reasoning beings. We may perhaps become so, more or less, in the second. In the first instance, we are driven by a thirst for life, by hunger, by the need to love, by the instinct to find our place in human society... The second instance does not even exist without the first. Reason arbitrates between instincts but uses the very same instincts as primary criteria in its arbitration.
Living means that every morning when you wake up you have to choose between seizing what life offers in the moment and forging ahead, no matter the weather.
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks `Where`s my share?` A man creates, a parasite says `What will the neighbors think?` A man invents, a parasite says `Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God..."
How easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
Without connections and overlap between communities, subcultures that make up the city don't evolve. As a result, the ghettos breed stagnation and intolerance.
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against each other.
Science works on the frontier between knowledge and ignorance. We’re not afraid to admit what we don’t know. There’s no shame in that. The only shame is to pretend that we have all the answers.
Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (movie)
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Marriage should be between a spouse and a spouse, not a gender and a gender.
You can never pinpoint the exact moment that a species came to be, because it never did. Just like how you used to be a baby and now you're older, but there was no single day when you went to bed young and woke up old. (...) There was no first human. It sounds like a paradox, it sounds like it breaks the whole theory of evolution, but it's really a key to truly understanding how evolution works. Evolution happens like a movie, with frames moving by both quickly and gradually, and we often can't see the change while it's occurring. Every time we find a fossil, it's a snapshot back in time, often with thousands of frames missing in between, and we're forced to reconstruct the whole film. Life is what happens in between the snapshots. Instead of a nice smooth road this is a journey on stepping stones and we give each one their own name.