Apis mellifera: Honey Bee

You matter because you're matter!

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. (Isaac Newton)

We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but is somewhat beauty and poetry. (Maria Mitchell)

We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. (T.S. Eliot)

It is difficult beyond description to conceive that space can have no end; but it is more difficult to conceive an end. It is difficult beyond the power of man to conceive an eternal duration of what we call time; but it is more impossible to conceive a time when there shall be no time. (Thomas Paine)

"All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For other they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman the were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You--you alone--will have the stars as no one else has them." (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)

As we look into the Universe and identify the many accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked to our benefit, it almost seems as if the Universe must in some sense have known that we were coming. (Freeman Dyson)

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid. (Albert Einstein)