In 1986, the space shuttle Challenger exploded and crashed down to Earth less than two minutes after takeoff. The cause of that… — David Autor Copy Share Image
Remember that even just watching animals has an impact. Intrusion into their living space can expose them to predation, keep them from… — Mary Taylor Copy Share Image
“Every month there is a moon, gigantic, round, heavy, an omen. IT transits, pauses, continues on and passes out of sight, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Aesthetics is not an end in itself. But in our culture, which is becoming more multi-sensory and less respectful of God, we… — Dan Kimball Copy Share Image
The whole world appears to me like a huge vacuum, a vast empty space, whence nothing desirable, or at least satisfactory, can… — David Brainerd Copy Share Image
After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, "Do you believe in UFOs?" I'm always struck by how the question… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
London and the south-east of England are very crowded spaces. Wherever a new runway is placed, thousands will be affected. Residents in… — Tim Bowler Copy Share Image
What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to… — Blake Butler Copy Share Image
Kids today aren't listening to music audio-only. They're picking up a CD and looking at the lyric sheet and wondering why the… — will.i.am Copy Share Image
I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If there is only one primordial Being “in” the Nothing, there is no relationship between this Being and anything else, and all… — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
Psychedelics are not flashlights into the chaos of the Freudian unconscious, they are tools for mathematically unpacking your mind into a higher… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the Moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
“Architecture of Time Technical civilization is man’s conquest of space. It is a triumph frequently achieved by sacrificing an… — Abraham Joshua Heschel Copy Share Image
“The chance of receiving a signal from a civilization exactly as advanced as we are should be minuscule. If they were even… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
In an information economy, entrepreneurs master the science of information in order to overcome the laws of the purely physical sciences. They… — George Gilder Copy Share Image
This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's… — Scott Carpenter Copy Share Image
Across the gulf of centuries, the blind smile of Homer is turned upon our age. Along the echoing corridors of time, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In any finite region of space, matter can only arrange itself in a finite number of configurations, just as a deck of… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
When you talk to astronauts, the most profound thing when you finally go into space is the view - looking back at… — Jeremy Hansen Copy Share Image
Behind my door at home, that's when I'm relaxed, and that's when I can allow the emotions or whatever - to feel… — Deborah Mailman Copy Share Image
When I was in college, it was on the recommendation of a friend of mine. He recommended that I take an acting… — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Copy Share Image
NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Darren Hardy has written a new bible for the self-improvement space. If you are looking for the real deal-a real program, with… — David Bach Copy Share Image
The wealthiest 300 people have greater riches than the three billion poorest. The three wealthiest people have greater riches than the 48… — Tony Juniper Copy Share Image
Being a part of the finesse and physicality of box lacrosse has been a great experience for me. I feel that I… — Paul Rabil Copy Share Image
If people can see Earth from up here, see it without those borders, see it without any differences in race or religion,… — Anousheh Ansari Copy Share Image
I like to talk. That's why I can't karaoke in a private room. Those types of shenanigans are only good in a… — Liza Lapira Copy Share Image
It was simply this: silence is not a neutral position, whatever your intentions. Silence automatically supports the status quo. When you are… — Justine Musk Copy Share Image
In my mind what novels do best is that they immerse us deeply into our character's world - they truly transport us… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
You begin by engaging the left hemisphere of the brain with the overall shape, the basic structure of the painting, and then… — Guido Molinari Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
NASA calls stuff nominal instead of phenomenal, like it really is. So I have given up that there is going to be… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Our ultimate analysis of space leads us not to a "here" and a "there," but to an extension such as that which… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
“We head out into space, ready for anything, which is to say, for solitude, arduous work, self-sacrifice, and death. Out of modesty… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“That's for the best. Otherwise they might realize they're in prison. It can't be helped. You women are used to harems and… — Vladimir Bartol Copy Share Image
Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“I believe it is time to explode once and for all the theory of the solitary space rocket and its little band… — Stephen L. Petranek Copy Share Image
