“To get our universe, with all of its potential for complexities or any kind of potential for any kind of life-form, everything… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
Consider a cask filled with a highly compressed gas. If we open one of its taps the gas will escape through it… — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
Our natural state of being is in relationship, a tango, a constant state of one influencing the other. Just as the subatomic… — Lynne McTaggart Copy Share Image
Each quantum event, each of the trillions of times reality's particles interact with each other every instant, is like a note that… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
While the business of education in Europe consists in lectures upon the ruins of Palmyra and the antiquities of Herculaneum, or in… — Benjamin Rush Copy Share Image
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
“Leonardo believed his research had the potential to convert millions to a more spiritual life. Last year he categorically proved the existence… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
[He] understood the people in a new way...The people is not everyone who speaks our language, nor yet the elect marked by… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
(On the temperature of water in wells) The reason why the water in wells becomes colder in summer is that the earth… — Lucretius Copy Share Image
Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I’m relieved to see that even brilliant physicists make mistakes.” Kohler looked over. “What do you mean?” “Whoever wrote that note made… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image