“What those two young physicists did remains the most important step yet made in the search for quantum gravity. They gave us… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
The Professor took the old practices and studied them, worked out their mechanical principles and then devised a graded scientific set of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25?… — Jen Lancaster Copy Share Image
I see no good reason why the views given this volume [The Origin of Species] should shock the religious feelings of any… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
When you lift off, the pressure is supposed to be maximum. But actually, it was very benign. Very enjoyable. But as soon… — Kalpana Chawla Copy Share Image
Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I do not like to encourage personalized politics, so we would not like it to be thought that just because certain political… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“[The screw machine] was on the principle of the gauge or sliding lathe now in every workshop throughout the world; the perfection… — David Wilkinson Copy Share Image
“The world’s so upside down, I’m starting to think gravity is just peer pressure. What’s called normal feels like a costume party… — Julieanne O'Connor Copy Share Image
Pregnant and birthing mothers are elemental forces, in the same sense that gravity, thunderstorms, earthquakes, and hurricanes are elemental forces. In order… — Ina May Gaskin Copy Share Image
Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
You're thinking of Europe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe. If you look at the entire NATO… — Donald Rumsfeld Copy Share Image
I don't know... it's just too much fun to wonder about what life would be without gravity. I just started thinking about… — Dave Pirner Copy Share Image
The romantic temper, so often and so grievously misinterpreted and not more by others than by its own, is an insecure, unsatisfied,… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
It's not completely obvious what gravity is, fundamentally, or what dimensions are, fundamentally. One of these days we'll understand better what we… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
Life as an astronaut in space is a very interesting one. There are things we all take for granted here on earth,… — Kevin A. Ford Copy Share Image
Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Although gravity is by far the weakest force of nature, its insidious and cumulative action serves to determine the ultimate fate not… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out laughing, a… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
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