Knowledge and wonder are the dyad of our worthy lives as intellectual beings. Voyager did wonders for our knowledge, but performed just… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We children sat transfixed before that moon our mother had called forth from the waters. When the moon had reached its deepest… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“When they reached their ship, Ed gazed out at the bay. It was black. The sky was black, but the bay was… — Clark Zlotchew Copy Share Image
“When the sun sets the moon will rise So the moon can be brave while the sun cries The moon will live… — Anissa Sorenson Copy Share Image
The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of… — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
I was born in 1958, the same year NASA was established, which I like to think of as not a coincidence. I… — Ellen Ochoa Copy Share Image
I just read that one scene for Emily in New Moon, and it was pretty simple and straightforward. They liked that I… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
Kaye: You know what the sun looks like? Janet: No, What? Kaye: Like he slit his wrists in a bathtub and the… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
There is the moon and the sky, and also the gloomy clouds, I wish the moon doesn't hide itself. This loneliness is… — SK Copy Share Image
And each year now we know more, but we know no better — what we see in the sky is simply the… — Christopher Buckley 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
“I watched a swatch of the sky turn red. The red spread like blood in the sea: red, red, red, and then… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
“I realized I still had my eyes shut. I had shut them when I put my face to the screen, like I… — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
It is possible to set your standards too high, which can undermine a man's confidence and ability to perform. Instead of reaching… — Jason Whitlock Copy Share Image
“When the constellation of Cassiopeia is in this hemisphere and I am able to identify it, I feel less alone. This isn't… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
There's Carol like a rolling car, And Martin like a flying bird, And Adam like the Lord's First Word, And Raymond like… — Eleanor Farjeon Copy Share Image
Well, Frank, my thoughts are very similar. The vast loneliness up here at the moon is awe-inspiring, and it makes you realize… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
Love was the secret behind everything...love was what made vineyards grow and filled the spaces between the stars, and fixed the ground… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Another star crossed the sky, twirling and twisting over itself, as if it were revelling in its own sparkling beauty. It was… — Sarah J. Maas Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
The imaginative young vagabond quickly loses the social instincts that help to make life bearable for other men. Always he hears voices… — Jim Tully Copy Share Image
The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Toad talked big about all he was going to do in the days to come, while stars grew fuller and larger all… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Obviously, when conditions are sunny and benign, any wimpy wantwit can relax and be cheerful. It’s when her house is burning down… — Mara Altman Copy Share Image
“Despite the enormous evening sky spreading over most of the canvas, its moon no more than a tarnished coin, dull and flat,… — Linda Pastan Copy Share Image
Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The moon is a satellite that was constructed. It was built and anchored outside Earth's atmosphere as a mediating and monitoring device,… — Barbara Marciniak Copy Share Image
“It was a new moon, but the stars of the northern hemisphere transformed her slim sinuous home, converting the oak strips on… — Jennifer Croft Copy Share Image
To walk into Bill Olsen's poems is to enter a mind so weirdly curious, you can't be released to sadness, not yet:… — Marianne Boruch Copy Share Image
Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
We stand on a great threshold in the human history of space exploration. If life is prevalent in our neighborhood of the… — Sara Seager Copy Share Image
“We came out on Coldra Crescent, one of those warm air nights, stars spitting in the sky like firebugs stuck on a… — Ron Berry Copy Share Image
One of my earliest recollections is being woken up at some ungodly hour in the morning by my parents and sat in… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“By that hidden way My guide and I did enter, to return To the fair world: and heedless of repose We climbed,… — Ian Morgan Cron Copy Share Image
Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most… — Robert Griffin III Copy Share Image
“Sometimes in the afternoon sky a white moon would creep up like a little cloud, furtive, without display, suggesting an actress who… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The chemical compounds are comparable to a system of planets in that the atoms are held together by chemical affinity. They may… — Jean-Baptiste Dumas Copy Share Image
In the Craft, we do not believe in the Goddess ~~ we connect with her; through the moon, the stars, the ocean,… — Starhawk Copy Share Image