And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Fish like shiny things, stupid people like shiny things, and the late Nebular Romular Ichibar IV liked shiny things. He burned to… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Macroscopic objects, as we see them all around us, are governed by a variety of forces, derived from a variety of approximations… — Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Copy Share Image
“The infinite zero of a black hole-mass crammed into zero space, curving space infinitely-punches a hole in the smooth rubber sheet. The… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert… — Ron Brackin Copy Share Image
It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
The key to proving that there's a black hole is showing that there's a tremendous amount of mass in a very small… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
We will soon create intelligences greater than our own ... When this happens, human history will have reached a kind of singularity,… — Vernor Vinge Copy Share Image
“I changed my mind. Maybe I do want a black hole for a vagina. How bad could it be? I wouldn't need… — Tara Sivec Copy Share Image
“I've heard about the past, the thirst for power, and the innocent blood that's been shed. And yes, looking at the present,… — Melody Manful Copy Share Image
“I sat there on that Wednesday evening in my pokey fucking living room, looked at myself on the TV screen being a… — James Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Similarly, a law of physics that allows information to be converted into geometry, and vice versa, but gives no account of why,… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Don't most astrophysicists now predict some "end of the line" - an end to it all? Not just the death of things,… — Mort W. Lumsden Copy Share Image
There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our… — Jesse Browner Copy Share Image
“...a useful coorective to the triumphalism of some scientists. For example, Maddox went out of his way to emphasise the provisional nature… — Peter Watson Copy Share Image
Imagine if you were the positive pole of a magnet, and you were told that under no circumstances were you allowed to… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“This is what happens to those who sit still. People who did nothing ended up with nothing lives lived on nothing furniture… — Lolita Files Copy Share Image
It is comforting to know that there is at least one place where we can go and be confident that we will… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
“Stress used to gnaw and saw away inside me like a tiny black hole. I learned that in spite of the stress,… — Elena Dunkle Copy Share Image
“The bank man had been standing quietly by our picnic table, waiting to lock up the house. Around his waist he wore… — C.E. Medford Copy Share Image
“The rest of the girls out there are just shooting stars," Simon whispered into my ear. "They're on a crash course to… — Amanda Howells Copy Share Image
As an astronomer, I get to ignore the details of the things that we dont understand. Theres a lot of work that… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
I've heard that's common with trauma - your mind replaces memories with blank spaces. Like a Ctrl-Alt-Delete for anything that hurts too… — Breanna Stewart Copy Share Image
“If we are able to convey ‘meaning’ to things and to actions, we may dominate part of the obscure world of ignorance.… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“The intervening years are sucked down these acheronian halls like light into a black hole while you helplessly teeter upon the event… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
So much of my sense of who I am is tied to mothering. When they left home, I fell into a huge,… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
You know we're in a planet surrounded by certain kinds of frequencies and noise. The earth's magnetic sphere makes weird sounds. The… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Do you realize that if you fall into a black hole, you will see the entire future of the Universe unfold in… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I hope that you have inherited a mind that is open to such small mysteries. They are no less thought-provoking than the… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear… — Preston Manning Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding whether or not there is a really massive, what we like to call 'super massive' black hole at… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
“She watched the tunnels as they flowed past: bare walls of concrete, a net of pipes and wires, a web of rails… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Broken leaves flew into the air from the violence of his thrashing, and the gore and blood kept pouring from the black… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
There's a large cluster of stars that are orbiting the center of our galaxy. And by measuring the motion of stars, and… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova'… — Miriam Shor Copy Share Image
Breakup blackout is when you're so upset and you've been crying so much that you basically black out for a couple of… — Rumer Willis Copy Share Image
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Sean Wilsey Copy Share Image
“Go out onto the deck and stare at the sky for ten minutes, and remind yourself that ultimately ours is a meaningless… — Jojo Moyes Copy Share Image
“This is not the sort of thing that shows up in satellite photographs. Whether in CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia, or in… — Barbara Demick Copy Share Image
“Whatever is happening on very small scales near the horizon of the black hole will be enlarged by the effect whereby the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
