As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with the indifferent nonbelievers, you end up with a much larger group of people than Jews, Muslims,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Astronomers are pure of heart and appealingly puerile. They look into the midnight sky and ask big questions, just as we did when we were in college: Who are we? Where do we come from? And why are we standing… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
What is wrong with looking muscular? Muscles are beautiful. Strength is beautiful. Muscle tissue is beautiful. It is metabolically, medically, and philosophically beautiful. Muscles… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Science is not a body of facts. Science is a state of mind. It is a way of viewing the world, of facing reality… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Giving a girl the impression that girlhood is an extended bounce on Barney's knee is like prepping a young gazelle for life on the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death. — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes the brain… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
As [The Nation columnist Katha] Pollitt points out, when one starts looking beneath the surface of things and adding together the out-front atheists with… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
Nature is a tenacious recycler, every dung heap and fallen redwood tree a bustling community of saprophytes wresting life from the dead and discarded,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“Nobody knows what the whales may have to click and clack about, but it could be a form of voting-time to stop here and… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The clitoris not only applauds when a women flaunts her mastery; it will give a standing ovation. In the multiple orgasm, we see the… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
“The brain is an organ of aggression, and there are many roads to this Rome of imagined conquests — so many that mental disorders,… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image