Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry… — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Felicity and I watch the dancers moving as one. They spin about like the earth on it's axis, enduring the dark, waiting… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
We are taught all this [the motion of the earth on its axis and around the sun] by the order of succession,… — Nicolaus Copernicus Copy Share Image
You think you're prepared. You think you've done everything you're supposed to, study hard, work hard, keep yourself out of trouble, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I imagine Johnny Mathis hates Bin Laden as much as I do, but could Johnny agree Bin Laden had a better speechwriter… — John Waters Copy Share Image
If the intensity of the material world is plotted along the horizontal axis, and the response of the human mind is on… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
If time is treated in modern physics as a dimension on a par with the dimensions of space, why should we a… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
They lived the slow and invisible interpenetration of their universes, like two stars gravitating around a common axis, in ever tighter orbits,… — Paolo Giordano Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
So much of what I love about poetry lies in the vast possibilities of voice, the spectacular range of idiosyncratic flavors that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
There are some pretty obvious ways of benchmarking creativity. One way is to perform what I call a creativity audit, which is… — John Kao Copy Share Image
It was a kiss to level mountains and shake stars from the sky. It was a kiss to make angels faint and… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
For Americans war is almost all of the time a nuisance, and military skill is a luxury like Mah-Jongg. But when the… — D. W Brogan Copy Share Image
You can have very big local government. By big, I mean very engaged government. Do you measure it in terms of the… — Zephyr Teachout Copy Share Image
Nothing good has ever been written about the full rotation of a racecar about its roll axis. — Carroll Smith Copy Share Image
I think if you're going to do a movie about Reagan, you do it about the fact that he created the huge… — Al Franken Copy Share Image
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
The funny thing is, this is what everyone assumes, that anybody who talks has an axe to grind. I've been around a… — Seymour Hersh Copy Share Image
I have never agreed with President Bush's argument regarding the axis of evil. Unfortunately, fundamentalists in Iran have used this as an… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. A book is not an isolated… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The ways of living have been rendered vastly easier by a multitude of inventions, by the increasing wealth of the country, by… — Anna Brackett Copy Share Image
We usually speak of the Jewish-Christian civilization - perhaps, the time has come, especially with regard to the Middle East conflict, to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
That's because international Islamic religious fanatics have the same goal as the Axis fascists - the destruction of our way of life. — David Hackworth Copy Share Image
Liberation does not concern the person, for liberation is freedom from the person. Basically the disciple and teacher are identical. Both are… — Jean Klein Copy Share Image
