Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.
Søren Kierkegaard (via barbellsandfortitude)
Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
Mark Twain (via quotemadness)
What comes easy won't last. What lasts wont come easy.
Diamonds and Coal are both made from pure carbon. A diamond is nothing more than a chunk of coal that did well under pressure.
According to the current standard model of cosmology, the observable universe – containing all the billions of galaxies and trillions upon trillions of stars – is just one of an infinite number of universes existing side-by-side, like soap bubbles in a foam.
Because they are infinite, every possible history must have played out. But more than that, the number of possible histories is finite, because there have been a finite number of events with a finite number of outcomes. The number is huge, but it is finite. So this exact event, where this author writes these words and you read them, must have happened an infinite number of times.
Even more amazingly, we can work out how far away our nearest doppelganger is. It is, to put it mildly, a large distance: 10 to the power of 10 to the power of 28 meters. That number, in case you were wondering, is one followed by 10 billion billion billion zeroes
Haworthia Cooperi Obtusa.
Love the clear windows and fat leaves 😍
The Suzzallo Graduate Reading Room at the University of Washington, Seattle
via reddit
A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor
“Jack and Jill went up the hill to have a little fun, but stupid Jill forgot the pill and now they have a son.”
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There is a Diamond ExoPlanet and it’s worth is $26.9 Nonillion.
If we stacked all that money in $50 notes, this would be the outcome. The earth(on the left at the bottom) is used for size comparison.
$26.900,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000.000