Carl Saxon

“When it got to be time to design the week”

“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it, everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every ‘superstar,’ every ‘supreme leader,’ every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.” Carl Sagan””

“Dalam bahasa Inggris, Saturday adalah harinya Saturnus (Saturn's day). Sunday (Matahari) dan Monday (Bulan) sudah sangat jelas. Selasa hingga Jumat dinamai dari dewa-dewa Saxon dan Teutonik yang menginvasi Britania: misalnya, Wednesday adalah hari Odin (atau Wodin), yang akan lebih jelas jika kita mengucapkannya sesuai ejaan, "Wedn's Day"; Thursday adalah hari Thor; Friday adalah hari Freya, dewi cinta. Hari terakhir dalam seminggu tetap menggunakan nama Romawi, sementara sisanya menjadi nama Jermanik.””