Norman Mailer records in his recent essays and public appearances his perfecting of himself as a virile instrument of letters; he is… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
But who does not see that the work goes beyond the one who created it? It marches before him and he will… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fragments pass briefly from one… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
And the most interesting natural structure? A giant, two-thousand-mile-long fish in orbit around Jupiter, according to a reliable report in the Weekly… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
To my great surprise, Twitter is not housed in a silver pod that orbits Earth at supersonic speeds, vacuuming up and then… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, we had a century where at the beginning of the century, most of the world was agricultural and… — David Gerrold Copy Share Image
Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“ Kepler 's laws, although not rigidly true, are sufficiently near to the truth to have led to the discovery of the… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the end no more than lonely lumps of… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When I play my best golf, I feel as if I'm in a fog, standing back watching the earth in orbit with… — Mickey Wright Copy Share Image
The first two missions have some test objectives, some new capabilities that we're going to try to develop on orbit to possibly… — Mark Kelly Copy Share Image
I am excited to think that the development of commercial capabilities to send humans into low Earth orbit will likely result in… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
When we can demonstrate that we can take off horizontally and put something into orbit, then we can begin to talk about… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Let our government be like that of the solar system. Let the general government be like the sun and the states the… — John Dickinson Copy Share Image
The moon is not kept in her orbit round the earth, nor the earth in her orbit round the sun, by a… — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
Not everyone can be an astronaut and go into space, some people with sufficient resources can purchase and fly sub-orbitally thanks to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
We drop like pebbles into the ponds of each other's souls, and the orbit of our ripples continues to expand, intersecting with… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
Trips to Mars, the Moon, even orbit, will require that we provide astrotourists with as many comforts from home as possible, including… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe… — Duane G. Carey Copy Share Image
Contemporary curators orbit in the place of distribution and consumption, and less and less in the space of artists. I think it… — Michelle Grabner Copy Share Image
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line,… — Sallust Copy Share Image
One day man will connect his apparatus to the very wheel work of the universe. The very forces that motivate the planets… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“planetary orbit, for example, is described quite simply as the response of a planet to the curvature of space in the vicinity… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Bertrand Russell used a hypothetical teapot in orbit about Mars for the same didactic purpose. You have to be agnostic about the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It's not easy to get human beings into orbit. So far only three nations have been able to do that, with all… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
It requires enormous presence of mind or rather quickness of wit, when opening your eyes to seize hold as it were of… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Evolution is all about passing on the genome to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generation after generation. From an evolutionary… — Harvey V. Fineberg Copy Share Image
When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating… — Sally Ride Copy Share Image
The Fitchburg Railroad touches the pond about a hundred rods south of where I dwell. I usually go to the village along… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The C Mission was the first command and service module. The D Mission was the first mission involving a lunar module in… — Gene Kranz Copy Share Image
E pur si muove. "Albeit It does move". (That's what Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
And if at times you renounce experience and mind's heavy logic, it seems that the world has rushed along on its orbit,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe… — John L. Phillips Copy Share Image
