Science

Fifty Illustrated Aphorisms about Humanity’s Place in the UniverseIllustrations by Darcie Gray

1 If it takes 13.8 billion years to reach the front,would you complain that the ride didn’t live up toexpectation or would you line up a second time?

2International travelers yearn to fly acrossgreat bodies of water, astronomers across galaxies. This is relativity.

3Evolution is a Western Grebe outrunning Jesus. *A Western Grebe is a bird that can run on water (this would be illustrated).

4Those who believe there is nothing that hasn’talready been said haven’t studied astronomy.

5 Absurdism is falling asleep whilst thinking about the age and size of theuniverse, only to then realise that you are lying weirdly on your right arm.

6The fading star shines brightest today: brighter still yesterday.

7 The human is the only species clever enough to rise above or succumb to itsown animal instincts. Are you the mighty cow who jumped over the moon or the little dog that chased its own tail?

8Science illuminates my darkness.