“The melancholy of the antique world seems to me more profound than that of the moderns, all of whom more or less… — Flaubert Gustave Copy Share Image
“The night I left home I felt that I had been tricked or trapped into going - and not even by Mrs… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“...you carry in yourself all the obstacles necessary to make your realization perfect. Always you will see that within you the shadow… — The Mother Copy Share Image
“Nick was waiting for him. Gabriel hesitated. He wished those text messages had come with some kind of sign, whether Nick was… — Brigid Kemmerer Copy Share Image
“We inhabit a universe where atoms are made in the centers of stars; where each second a thousand suns are born; where… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most Muggles lived in a world defined by the limits of what you could do with cars and telephones. Even though Muggle… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“You are exporting disorder [in the form of heat into the Universe] now as you read this book. You are hastening the… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the rest of the world was gone. It was the most plausible answer. Heaven knows she couldn’t see or think of… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“Grinning, she hovered over him. Then, like a fist closing around a doorknob, her grin closed around him. With her lips, she… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them sometimes. "Do you ever feel," she asked Nick Tuesday night, "like… — Rainbow Rowell Copy Share Image
“Many of the important principles in twentieth century physics are expressed as limitations on what we can know. Einstein's principle of relativity… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“Removing zero from the universe might seem like a drastic step, but strings are much more tractable than dots; by eliminating zero,… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“In a galaxy far, far away, at a time when the Earth hosted nothing bigger than a simple bacterium, two monster black… — Marcus Chown Copy Share Image
“At cocktail parties, I played the part of a successful businessman's wife to perfection. I smiled, I made polite chit-chat, and I… — Suzie Burke Copy Share Image
“Look at me." I stood in front of both of them. To Liz I said, “You and Davis are adorable together.” I… — Jennifer Echols Copy Share Image
“As mathematicians were uncovering the connection between zero and infinity, physicists began to encounter zeros in the natural world; zero crossed over… — Charles Seife Copy Share Image
“Bigger questions, questions with more than one answer, questions without an answer are the hardest to cope with in silence. Once asked… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Crushed rock littered its sides, black and glistening even in the deep gloom, reflecting back the strange light of the lake. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And what of our own universe? The newest conjecture is that all that we experience—from the tiniest vibrating string of energy to… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
“We don't really know whether there are black holes that emit observable amounts of Hawking radiation. Nevertheless, there is no way to… — Henning Genz Copy Share Image
“It was not only the absence of light but the absence of everything. He might be at the core of a black… — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
“Consider Mr. Spock of Star Trek, a naive archetype of rationality. Spock’s emotional state is always set to “calm,” even when wildly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image