How do you observe something you can't see? This is the basic question of somebody who's interested in finding and studying black… — Andrea M. Ghez Copy Share Image
Just as the power of the sun is the only force in the natural universe that causes a plant to grow against… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
As an actor, you can really play the intensity and gravity and seriousness of the moment, and just rely on the circumstances… — Ed Helms Copy Share Image
If you are not a skater, you probably can't imagine what I mean. I could try to tell you by saying it's… — Sonja Henie Copy Share Image
In mortals there is a care for trifles which proceeds from love and conscience, and is most holy; and a care for… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is the nature of the Kali Yuga that most human beings are now held back from spiritual liberation due to the… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
“No one talks about it. No one talks about them at all. “The Ancients prefer discretion,” Mom once told me. But some… — Melissa West Copy Share Image
One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It… — Dolores LaChapelle Copy Share Image
When Tony Benn became a minister in the 1960s -- and I think this must be apocryphal -- he had a huge… — Neal Ascherson Copy Share Image
My character on 'Voyager,' because of the way he was presented, I could go either way. I could be a real buffoon,… — Robert Picardo Copy Share Image
Comedy is deemed inferior to tragedy primarily because of the social prevalence of narcissistic pathology. In other words people who are too… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
We can summarize electricity, magnetism and gravity into equations one inch long, and that's the power of field theory. And so I… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Einstein recalled realizing that a person falling from the roof of a building would feel no effects of gravity as he fell.… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
Your 'hara' is here, where your uterus is if you're a woman, where the tummy sticks out if you're a man, the… — Scilla Elworthy Copy Share Image
“After the slowing, every action required a little more force than it used to. The physics had changed. Take, for example, the… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Tonight, the moon came out, it was nearly full. Way down here on earth, I could feel it's pull. The weight of… — Mary Chapin Carpenter Copy Share Image
My constant fear as a writer as that I will fail to convey the gravity of living. I know that to some… — Mark Powell Copy Share Image
Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed,… — Alexis Carrel Copy Share Image
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When the landscape buckles and jerks around, when a dust column of debris rises from the collapse of a block of buildings… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Well, my intention is to make work about being uncomfortable. About being in a world that isn't always the world you want… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I've gotten pretty good with a tray between acting jobs. In fact, when I got the TV show 'Gravity' I was still… — Seth Numrich Copy Share Image
She closed her eyes and jumped. For a moment she felt herself hang suspended, free of everything. Then gravity took over, and… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
It is a characteristic of any decaying civilization that the great masses of the people are unconscious of the tragedy. Humanity in… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Stephen Hawking won [Babson Institute competition ] one year with his black hole stuff. It's keeping an open mind on whether gravity… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
As deaths have accumulated I have begun to think of life and death as a set of balance scales. When one is… — Alison Hawthorne Deming Copy Share Image
Floating in the void free of gravity I made my way along the side of the ship. I listened to my own… — Elisabeth Eaves Copy Share Image
I arrived at Princeton as a graduate student from the University of Manitoba in 1958. To my great good fortune, I fell… — Jim Peebles Copy Share Image
Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
In the desert the detachment of life from all normal intercourse imparts a sense of gravity to every rencontre, and each touch… — Mildred Cable Copy Share Image
She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It makes him contemptible to be considered fickle, frivolous, effeminate, mean-spirited, irresolute, from all of which a prince should guard himself as… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there's a… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
How many black holes have we been up close and personal with?" Kosta countered. "All sorts of odd things happen near the… — Timothy Zahn Copy Share Image
Marriage is for committed lovers, not hostages. Marriage is a sacred relationship created for two people who complete each other spiritually. While… — Rob Jackson Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .'… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“Of course, many people in the universe have also had the misplaced belief that they can safely ignore gravity, mostly after taking… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Two opposing forces inhabit the poem: one of elevation or up-rooting, which pulls the word from the language: the other of gravity,… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image