Para o Dia da Dança

Tran Tuan Viet @vietsui, «A ballet dancer performs “Swan Lake” in Hanoi, Vietnam», publicado in natgeoyourshot no Instagram.

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«Dance is the hidden language of the soul».

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Martha Graham.
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Não é bem dança, mas comunicação através de movimento, o que também é dança:

Noites de verão

Marcela Calderón (link)

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“Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us.” 

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Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Futuro(s)

Paul Klee, The Future Man (1933)

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«Who knows? Human events entail too many variables, too many uncertainties, to make scientific statements about our future.

But we can still dream.The next golden age of human achievement begins here and now New Year's Day of the next cosmic year.

In the first tenth of a second, we take the vision of the pale blue dot to heart, and learn how to share this tiny world with each other.

The last internal combustion engine is placed in a museum, as the effects of climate change reverse and diminish.

A fifth of a second into this future people will stop dying from the effects of poverty.

The planet is now a completely self-sustaining, intercommunicating organism.

A half-second from now, the polar ice caps are restored to the way they were in the 19th century, and the forecast is mild and pleasant for the next cosmic minute and a half 40,000 years.

By the time we are ready to settle even the nearest other planetary systems, we will have changed.

The simple passage of so many generations will have changed us.

Necessity will have changed us.

We are an adaptable species.

It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri and the other nearby star systems on our interstellar arks.

It will be a species very like us, but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses; more confident, far-seeing, capable and wise.

For all our failings, despite our flaws and limitations, we humans are capable of greatness».

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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A SpaceTime Odyssey (2014).

Para o Dia da Família

Pablo Picasso, The happy family (c.1917, Musée Picasso, Paris)

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«We are all connected; To each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe atomically.»

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Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Vivendo e aprendendo

Lucy Willis, The white bench

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«Whether or not you can never become great at something, you can always become better at it. Don't ever forget that! And don’t say “I’ll never be good”. You can become better! and one day you’ll wake up and you’ll find out how good you actually became.»

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Neil deGrasse Tyson.

Simplicidade

Thomas Cooper Gotch, The Orchard (1887)

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«Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted.»

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Neil deGrasse Tyson

Outro pensamento: Ciência e Imaginação

Mikalojus Ciurlionis, Thoughts (1907)

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Gosto de assistir à nova série Cosmos apresentada por Neil deGrasse Tyson. Ouvir as palavras de Tyson demonstra bem como vivemos num mundo maravilhoso, mesmo quando nos cingimos a factos científicos. Citando as palavras deste astrofísico, noutro contexto: «I know that the molecules in my body are traceable to phenomena in the cosmos. That makes me want to grab people on the street and say: ‘Have you HEARD THIS?»

Marc Chagall, Now the King loved science and geometry... (1948)

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Contudo, gosto também de outros mundos de pura imaginação, de fantasia e de magia, sob as mais diversas formas artísticas. Será que esse mundo fora da realidade é realmente oposto ao da ciência? Se falarmos de magia no sentido clássico, claro que sim (mas eu gostava que existisse, confesso!). Mas a imaginação é mais do que isso e é espantoso pensar que muito daquilo que era considerado simples magia há uns séculos atrás, é hoje puro facto científico. Einstein terá dito: «Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.»

Ronnie Landfield, Imagination's Door (1980)