“At night, I rest on my couch and look to the sky. If the sky knew how much I adore you, it… — Amany Al-Hallaq Copy Share Image
Was the majority right when they stood by while Jesus was crucified? Was the majority right when they refused to believe that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Moreover, the Catholic Encyclopedia ("CE") acknowledges that there is "inference" that the Egyptians were aware of the heliocentricity of the solar system,… — D.M. Murdock Copy Share Image
For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“The sun bends space around itself, and Earth does not turn around it because of a mysterious force but because it is… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
“Once, on a sleepless night, I elaborated a whole theory of art predicated on simply reminding the ever-forgetful mind of the most… — David Gordon Copy Share Image
“Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there’s not even the smallest… — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
“A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“What did happen to Mars, anyway? Our next door neighbor, the Red Planet, apparently was once covered with flowing rivers. What happened… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Three things: 1- Stop letting pride win. Don't let it destroy and unravel friendships and loves. We blinked, and it's the holidays… — Victoria Erickson Copy Share Image
“I forced myself to let my belly relax into a deeper breath. I closed my eyes and felt the solidity of the… — Sarah Andrews Copy Share Image
“When in 1863 Thomas Huxley coined the phrase 'Man's Place in Nature,' it was to name a short collection of his essays… — Homer W. Smith Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary that you should compare yourself with others, or imagine yourself greater or higher than them. In fact, such… — Yogi Ramacharaka Copy Share Image
“It was like looking in a mirror. The same flickering hope in Loo, the same desperate need to be loved, was right… — Hannah Tinti Copy Share Image
“Their mistake was the mistake of Galileo. He was right that the earth revolves around the sun, but he didn't know that… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
In the history of mankind there are recorded two great Inversions. The first, set forth by the Nazarene to the effect that… — Louis Sullivan Copy Share Image
I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
“The Earth spins once a day. It goes around the sun once a year. The moon goes round the earth every 28… — William Meikle Copy Share Image
“I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about… — John Muir Copy Share Image
I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
The result of [the] cumulative efforts to investigate the cell - to investigate life at the molecular level - is a loud,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“The official record for the fastest manmade object is the Helios 2 probe, which reached about 70 km/s in a close swing… — Randall Munroe Copy Share Image
“For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Our Sun is not Earth’s true “mother.” Although many peoples of Earth have worshipped the Sun as a god that gave birth… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Medieval Persia also produced a long and beautiful poem satirizing the claims and practices of religion. Though Omar Khayyám (1048-1131) is best… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Fitzgerald had noticed that if this sqrt(I-v^2/c^2) correction factor was applied to the analysis of Michelson's apparatus fixed on the earth's surface… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image