If the Earth is the size of a pea in New York, then the Sun is a beachball 50m away, Pluto is… — Wayne Hays Copy Share Image
He looked on the mountaintops, he looked in the valleys, he looked at the bottom of the sea. He looked on the… — Joseph Carlson Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
Humour is but the faint terrestrial echo of the hideous laughter of the blind mad gods that squat leeringly and sardonically in… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“I got out of my car, locked it tight as a virgin, and entered his back seat, where a Milky Way wrapper… — Robert Downs Copy Share Image
“Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw… — Lady Svetlana Copy Share Image
“...when we broke the surface again the first thing I saw was the great bold stripe of the Milky Way painted across… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
“And the Milky Way belted heaven with ice and silver, and the Magellanic Clouds were not vague shimmers but roiling and glowing;… — Poul Anderson Copy Share Image
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Libraries are sanctuaries from the world and command centers into it . . . They are, ideally, places where nothing happens and… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Saying Good-bye to the God of Disease (1) Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing when the great ancient doctor Hua To… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
“Oh, how small we were, in the grand scheme of it all. Our planet was but a speck in the midst of… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“In 1997, the Hubble telescope took flight to give us a look through its powerful lens into places we had never known… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
“He's seeing the actual Milky Way streaked across the sky. The whole of his entire galaxy, right there in front of him.… — Patrick Ness 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
“When I was little – eight or nine – I used to scare myself by looking up at the stars. You can… — Annalisa Crawford Copy Share Image
“My childhood dream came true, but now I have a new one. I dream that some of these young people, while they're… — Mike Massimino Copy Share Image
“What is this?" Emily asked, looking in the largest Styrofoam container. There was a bunch of dry-looking chopped meat inside. "Barbecue." "This… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“Is it that by its indefiniteness it shadows forth the heartless voids and immensities of the universe, and thus stabs us from… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“Again and again across the centuries, cosmic discoveries have demoted our self-image. Earth was once assumed to be astronomically unique, until astronomers… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
The present rearranges the past. We never tell the story whole because a life isn't a story; it's a whole Milky Way… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“He wrote: "A religion to be true must include everything from the amoeba to the milky way." Nothing must be excluded from… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
“And the Milky Way, like a great aurora, flowed through his body to stand at the edges of the earth. There was… — Yasunari Kawabata Copy Share Image
“The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People';… — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Continuous as the stars that shine And twinkle on the milky way, They stretch'd in never-ending line Along the margin of a… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The spiral in a snail's shell is the same mathematically as the spiral in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's also the… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
I felt as if the Milky Way, hovering above our heads like a celestial pitcher, had suddenly overturned, pouring suns and planets… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
That is the spiral galaxy in Andromeda. It is as large as our Milky Way. It is one of a hundred million… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“It isn't for us that cows' milk comes forth, but we drink it. Flowers weren't made for us to look at or… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Lo! the poor Indian! whose untutor'd mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind; His soul proud Science never… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we should not be too surprised that nature sometimes appears counterintuitive to a tribe of observant, carbon-based ape descendants roaming around… — Brian Cox Jeff Forshaw Copy Share Image
If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Consider all the inanimate matter in the universe, all the dumb atoms, all the mindless molecules, all the oblivious dust grains and… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
