Love in Vastness

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Carl Sagan

“Love stimulates all of your happy chemicals at once. That’s why it feels so good.” - from “The Neurochemistry of Love ” article on the Psychology Today website. When we feel love, our body produces an assortment of chemicals, each of which “rewards love in a different way.”

About the author

Carl Sagan , (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including experimental demonstration of the production of amino acids from basic chemicals by exposure to light. He assembled the first physical messages sent into space, the Pioneer plaque and the Voyager Golden Record, which were universal messages that could potentially be understood by any extraterrestrial intelligence that might find them. He argued in favor of the hypothesis, which has since been accepted, that the high surface temperatures of Venus are the result of the greenhouse effect.