The fundamental reason why carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is critically important to biology is that there is so little of it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
We don't have a "consciousness meter" that'll tell us exactly how conscious something is. I think we might get there eventually. — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
The Aedes aegypti mosquito, which spreads dengue fever and yellow fever, has traditionally been unable to survive at altitudes higher than 1,000… — Ross Gelbspan Copy Share Image
I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I started running track when I was 13 years old, as a freshman in high school. I ran the 400 meters, which… — Norah O'Donnell Copy Share Image
When you put a movie together, you're continually screening it for yourself and you're screening it for other people. It's like a… — David Ayer Copy Share Image
When you win a race your on top that day, so take it for what its worth, have a good time and… — Bobby Allison Copy Share Image
We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep… — Ian Gillan Copy Share Image
Nobody in the United States knows what either a "meter" or a "kilogram" is. The whole reason why we fought the Cold… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and… — Orson F. Whitney Copy Share Image
“Your heart—as you call it—and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
It's illegitimate to talk about a post-scarcity Utopia without talking about questions of distribution. There have always been these Utopian predictions -… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore… — John Milton Copy Share Image
The word "Verse" is used here as the term most convenient for expressing, and without pedantry, all that is involved in the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read… — George Cukor Copy Share Image
At a time when you stay at the top, there is no explosion of happiness - happiness is experienced when everything remains… — Jerzy Kukuczka Copy Share Image
In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
We can understand poetry from a billion - in a billion styles, experiment, tradition, combination, spice, meter, image. It's all there for… — Juan Felipe Herrera Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
People always underestimate the impact of technology. To give you an example: In the 1970s the frontier for offshore development was 200… — Daniel Yergin Copy Share Image
Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they… — Philip Levine Copy Share Image
“There were three people in my home and I was the only one showing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity and reactivity to the radio frequency… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
And if you are playing in several meters at once, there has to be a - not a rigid - but there… — Robert Fripp Copy Share Image