For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan · Astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator Contact

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is rare and don't throw it away.

Stephen Hawking · Theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author The 'most important pieces of advice' Stephen Hawking gave to his children

Galactic Story

And so wandered Someone, down fate’s winding way
Threw his heart to the valley where Winter held sway
Something silent yet certain, like shadow and flame
Took its place right beside him, as smoke called their name

Something climbed on his shoulder, its whispers ran wild
Spoke of falling and failing, of steps lost in time
How they’re drifting too deep now, down sorrow’s long stair
But isn’t there Someone, for Someone out there?

Someone turned with a fire, his voice sharp as stone
"Why push me with echoes of what I have known?
I see no horizon, just silence and dust
Still searching for hearts that remember to trust!"

Something shuddered and stumbled, fell onto the ground
"You don’t hear me, dear Someone, don’t heed to my sound
But look forward—just look—don’t you see how she glows?
Spring is breathing before you, the end of your road!"

And then Someone soared higher, through air sharp and bright
Left the words of that Something to fade in the night
A string pulled so tightly, a song met the sky
But what they were singing—only wind knows, and why...