(My old nickname was GruffiGummi.)
Ubi dubium ibi libertas. (Where there is doubt, there is freedom.)
Dubium sapientiae initium. (Doubt is the origin of wisdom.)
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance,
The delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe,
Are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.
In our obscurity, in all this vastness,
There is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
Carl Sagan