In all cultures, it is the task of a religion to close the field of contingency ...and to set up havens of… — Eugen Drewermann Copy Share Image
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that economic security is a human right, has been to much babied. While he babbles, other men are risking… — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
People feel tremendous pressure to settle down in some sort of permanent space and fill it up with stuff, but deep inside… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She was gone, and all that was left was the space you'd grown around her, like a tree that grows around a… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Reliable people have been seeing the phenomenon known as flying saucers for a thousand years and more. There are good reports as… — Morris K. Jessup Copy Share Image
Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I am convinced that of all the people on the two sides of the great curtain, the space pilots are the least… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
After writing several Nutbrown Hare stories, I thought: what might happen when a little hare begins to explore the space around him?… — Sam McBratney Copy Share Image
“To the moon, Alice!” Maybe it wasn’t as humble or elegant as ‘One small step for man,’ But if this was being… — Daniel Thorman Copy Share Image
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
And Venus must be hot if the history of the solar system is not the history of no change for billions of… — Immanuel Velikovsky Copy Share Image
A life like an intricately woven basket, frayed, worn, broken, unraveled, reworked, reknit from many of its original pieces... Life can survive… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows,… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Imagine a place where time is counted by ticks and tocks, but space is measured in sunset Imagine a place where each… — Sarah L. Thomson Copy Share Image
People have to take seriously the threat coming from asteroids and what it represents. As Chelyabinsk reminded us, we have to take… — Kesha Rogers Copy Share Image
The universe does not exist 'out there,' independent of us. We are inescapably involved in bringing about that which appears to be… — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
I know everything, you see,' the old voice wheedled. 'The beginning, the present, the end. Everything. You now, you see the past… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
My approach to music is very deep. I do not compromise with anybody or anything else in the world. I do not… — Nikhil Banerjee Copy Share Image
“our curiosity as a species will not allow us to remain locked to our home planet much longer. Humankind must explore, for… — Eugene Cernan Copy Share Image
What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest… — Hector Tobar Copy Share Image
The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an… — Lauren F. Winner Copy Share Image
It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,'… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Exploration, of course, is going to new places, but I don't think we go to new places just solely to say: "Well,… — John Glenn Copy Share Image
“Distance reminds us that there’s a lot more to the universe than just people—that there’s even a lot more to people than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks,… — Alan Shepard Copy Share Image
Is there water still on Mars? I don't have a view on that because we don't have good data to answer that… — Steve Squyres Copy Share Image
Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I mean, you always hope to have a part on every level, on every layer. For us it was very much a… — Oren Moverman Copy Share Image
I started researching a little bit, watching 'Next Generation,' 'Deep Space Nine' and even the old 'Star Trek.' Writing is always the… — Robert Beltran Copy Share Image
The engine roared to life. He ran toward her. She shot our of her parking space. He rushed to the side of… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
A somewhat casual observer from outer space might well deduce that the course of evolution in this planet had produced a species… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
The Internet is such a paradoxical space - it's limitless and totally bounded, apparently free yet corporate-controlled, apparently invisible yet surveilled, a… — Joyelle McSweeney Copy Share Image
My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Space doesn't offer an escape from Earth's problems. And even with nuclear fuel, the transit time to nearby stars exceeds a human… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
If a fast doesn't include any sacrifices, then it's not a fast. The discomfort is where the magic happens. Life zips along,… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is the study of the most general nature and basic structure of reality, and therefore the concepts of metaphysics, concepts like… — Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra Copy Share Image
Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Scale is a mental - you can say that a lounger has scale, a building has scale, or an object has scale,… — Massimo Vignelli Copy Share Image